Main description:

Includes contributions from Gloria Steinem, Susie Orbach and V (formerly Eve Ensler) * Reflects the latest thinking in feminism and interpersonal psychoanalysis * Offers a rare non-Lacanian psychoanalytic guide to incorporating feminist thinking in contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice.

Contents:

Introduction Part One: Learning from Activists: Engaging with and Resisting Patriarchal Constraint 1. Interview with Gloria Steinem 2. Interview with Carol Gilligan, Carol Jenkins, Emily Mann, and V, formerly known as Eve Ensler Part Two: On the Couch and in the Institute: How Patriarchy Impacts Psychoanalytic Theory, Practice and Structure 3. Patriarchy in Psychoanalytic Theory and Organizations: The Oedipus Complex as Ideology 4. Outlining the Psychoanalytic "Playbook" toward a Transgressive Collective Response-Ability 5. Confusion of Wills Between the Teacher and the Student: Psychoanalytic Theory and the Persistence of Gendered Abuses of Power in Psychoanalysis 6. On Psychoanalysis's Invention of Patriarchy and the Democratic Significance of Anatomical Difference 7. Maternally Speaking: Mothers, Daughters, and the Talking Cure 8. In Search of our Mother's Couch: Toward a Genealogy of Black Feminist Psychoanalytic Theory 9. Unmasking Psychoanalysis: The Emperor, The Boy, and the Search for New Clothes 10. Psychoanalysis in a Radically Changing World: How Do We Stand? Part Three: Psychoanalysis and Its Liberating Potential: A Clinical Perspective 11. Identity Searches and the Body 12. Patriarchy, Splitting, and Hunger for the Other 13. Working with Patriarchal Countertransference 14. Don't Take Up Space: How the Patriarchy Works to Undermine Trans Communities from Within 15. "Nasty Women" - Mobilizing Female Aggression to Potentiate Women and Silence the Patriarchy Part Four: Conclusion 16. Studies in Patriarchy: Intelligibility, Recognition and Psychoanalysis's Category Trouble