Main description:

Includes discussion of raising children, and children growing up, in the unique conditions of a kibbutz. Emphasises a contemporary, feminist approach to considering the role of mothers. Includes assessment of various kinds of trauma relating to the absence of material figures, using clinical case studies.

Contents:

1. Introduction 2. A 'Mother-of-One's-Own' - An Analytic View of Object-Relationships in Adult Patients Raised in the Kibbutz 3. 'Love Thy Work': From Having No Mother to Being Everybody's Mother - Re-Examining the Professional Choice of Women Psychotherapists Who Grew Up in the Kibbutz 4. That Which Was Not - Some Thoughts Regarding Oedipus's Modern Conflicts 5. The 'Choice' between Illusory Life and Acceptance of the Death of One's Love Object 6. Psychosomatic Symptoms as Physical Dreams: Emotional Experiences given Expression through the Body 7. When Hunger Strikes - Re-thinking Kafka's 'A Hunger Artist' in light of Winnicott's Theory of the Psyche-Soma 8. What do Faith and Trust have to do with Psychoanalysis?