Gender And Psychoanalytic Treatment

This collection of essays explores the significance of gender in contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice.

List of contents

Introduction, Freud and Gender: The Script as Artifact, The Struggle for Gender Differentiation in Boys: Two Case Reports, The Mother’s Wish for a Better Self: Mutual Identifications Between Mothers and Daughters, Gender and Superego Development, Idealization, Gender and the Psychoanalyst, The Influence of Gender in the Analysis of the Homosexual, Gender-Related Barriers to Intimacy, A Variant of the Whore-Madonna Complex in Contemporary Women.

About the author

Morton Kissen , Ph.D. Professor and Associate Director, Postdoctoral Psychotherapy Program, Gordon Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, Adelphi University, Garden City, New York; Supervisor and Control Analyst, New York Center for Psychoanalytic Training.

Summary

This collection of essays explores the significance of gender in contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice.

Product details

• Assisted by: Morton Kissen (Editor), Kissen Morton (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780876306871
• ISBN: 978-0-87630-687-1
• No. of pages: 112
• Weight: 453 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; MEDICAL / Internal Medicine, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Gender studies, gender groups, Psychology of gender, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis