Research Catalog

Title

A woman's unconscious use of her body / Dinora Pines.

Author

Pines, Dinora.

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press, 1994.

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Details

Description

243 pages; 21 cm

Summary

The mind-body connection in women is complex and intriguing: women can develop rashes, abdominal pains, or asthma at moments of stress; they may become pregnant or miscarry in response to unconscious conflicts; and they are deeply influenced by bodily changes - from menstruation to menopause - throughout their lives. In this perceptive and engrossing book, an eminent psychoanalyst explores key moments of women's lives and sexuality, examining how their unconscious minds are expressed through their bodies and, conversely, how their body experiences impinge upon their minds. Drawing on numerous examples from her clinical practice, Dinora Pines tells vivid stories of how young, pregnant women learn to integrate reality with unconscious fantasies, hopes, and daydreams; how women cope with the psychological antecedents and consequences of miscarriage, abortion, and infertility; and how older women adjust to the end of fertility and to old age, with the attendant issues of loss. Pines concludes by discussing her work with Holocaust survivors and children of survivors who unconsciously somatize their emotional distress about the horrors of the war and postwar years. Throughout she enables us to see how the analytic encounter can reveal and relate the secrets of the mind and body and provide a space for thought and change.

Subject

• Psychoanalysis
• Women > Psychology
• Women > Mental health
• psychoanalysis
• Psychoanalysis
• Women > Mental health
• Women > Psychology
• Sexualität
• Frau
• Lichaamsbewustheid
• Vrouwen
• Lichaam en geest
• Psychoanalyse
• Levensfasen

Note

• "First published 1993 in the United Kingdom by Virago Press Limited"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliography (p. 226-231) and index.

Contents

Skin Communication: Early Skin Disorders and Their Effect on Transference and Countertransference -- The Psychoanalytic Dialogue: Transference and Countertransference -- Adolescent Promiscuity: A Clinical Presentation -- Pregnancy and Motherhood: Interaction between Fantasy and Reality -- Adolescent Pregnancy and Motherhood -- The Relevance of Early Psychic Development to Pregnancy and Abortion -- Pregnancy, Miscarriage and Abortion -- Emotional Aspects of Infertility and Its Remedies -- The Menopause -- Old Age -- Working with Women Survivors of the Holocaust: Affective Experiences in Transference and Countertransference -- The Impact of the Holocaust on the Second Generation.

ISBN

• 0300059604
• 9780300059601

LCCN

93061537

OCLC

• ocm30560710
• 30560710
• SCSB-2029877

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library