Female Experience - Three Generations of British Women Psychoanalysts on Work with Women (Hardcover)

psychoanalytic studies and women's studies.ware of the constraints of gender which are manifested as transference in the therapeutic process. The analysis of women by women has made a valuable contribution to the development of psychoanalysis. In "Female Experience," fifteen female psychoanalysts representing three generations and differeing theoretical orientations (Kleinian, Freudian and Independent) within the British Psychoanalytical Society discuss their experiences in working with women. A wide spectrum of subjects are addresed, ranging from sexual abuse, eating disorders and gender acquisition to childbearing, perinatal loss and postnatal depression and the parent/child relationship. While the contributors to this book present detailed material pertaining exclusively to the analytic reaction between women, the insights afforded by this into the determinants of gender identity will be of interest to practicing psychotherapists both male and female, and to students of gender studies, psychoanalytic studies and women's studies.