Main description:

This book provides a psychoanalytic perspective on female psychology and includes articles with divergent theoretical viewpoints. It is useful for both research and clinical study and may also provide a bridge to scholars, teachers, and clinicians outside of psychoanalysis itself.

Contents:

I. Historical Views 1. Sigmund Freud and the Psychology of Women 2. Early Psychoanalytic Views 3. Modern Commentaries on Historical Writings from 1900-1940
4. Modern Theoretical Formulations II. Developmental Perspectives 5. Influences on Gender Differences 6. Preoedipal Development in Girls 7. Superego and the Oedipus Complex 8. Latency 9. Adolescences 10. Menstrual Cycle Experience 11. Adult Development: Overviews 12. Early Childhood: identity Consolidation, Autonomy, Attachments, Working, and Parenting 13. Love, Genital Primacy, and Relations Between the Sexes 14. Pregnancy and Motherhood 15. Adult Development: Midlife Issues, Menopause, and Aging 16. Fathers and Daughters 17. Siblings III. Female Sexuality, Character, Psychopathology 18. Sexuality 19. Gender Identity Disorders, Paraphilias, and the Ego-Distonic Homosexualities in Women 20. Aspects of Female Character 21. Masochism 22. Narcissism 23. Eating Disorders 24. Sexual Abuse IV. Clinical Concepts 25. Gender Issues in Transference and Countertransference 26. The Pregnant Analyst: Clinical Issues V. Reading Lists 27. Reading List: Feminist Academic Writings
28. Suggested Readings: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Female Psychology