Critical Psychophysical Passages in the Life of a Woman A Psychodynamic Perspective için kapak resmi
Critical Psychophysical Passages in the Life of a Woman A Psychodynamic Perspective
Başlık:
Critical Psychophysical Passages in the Life of a Woman A Psychodynamic Perspective
ISBN:
9781468453621
Edition:
1st ed. 1988.
Yayın Bilgileri:
New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1988.
Fiziksel Tanımlama:
310 p. online resource.
Contents:
I • Early Developmental Themes: The Emotional Birth of the Female -- 1 • Psychohistorical Reflections on Changing Body Images for Women -- 2 • Early Female Development: From Birth through Latency -- 3 • Reflections on the Daughter as a Projective Screen: Mother-Daughter Boundaries -- 4 • The Father's Role in the Self-Development of His Daughter -- II • Female Passages of the Body-Self -- 5 • Menarche and Menstruation: Psychoanalytic Implications -- 6 • Motivations for Motherhood and the Nature of the Self-Object Tie -- 7 • Psychoanalytic Aspects of Pregnancy -- III • From Body-Self to Other -- 8 • Psychology of Childbirth -- 9 • The Postpartum Period: Analytic Reflections on the Potential for Agony and Ecstasy -- 10 • The Nursing Experience: A Clinical Study -- 11 • Emotional Aspects of Pregnancy and Childbirth -- IV • Later Developmental Themes -- 12 • A Study of Menopausal Women in Analytic Treatment -- 13 • Menopause: Myth and Reality -- V • Twentieth Century Female Issues and Problems -- 14 • Body Image in the 21st Century -- 15 • Psychodynamics of Abortion: Regression or Rebirth? -- 16 • Women and Eating Disorders -- 17 • Psychological Consequences of Infertility -- Overview: Biotechnology and the 21st Century.
Abstract:
After the birth of my second son some 11 years ago, I was painfully torn by the timing of my reentry to work-my wish to return to a prestigious and stimulating position as chief psychologist of a large agency, or my equally powerful wish to enjoy fully my beautiful new son's infancy, undivided and untorn. At the time I had a dream that my body was cut in half at the waist-my head leaned to the books neatly contained on the library shelves; my belly went to the crib, all sweet-smelling and soft. Not having had the opportunity to be "un­ divided" with my first son (now 17 years old), I chose to resign my agency position and stay home as long as I wished and then develop my private practice. It was a decision that at the time entailed much loss-cerebral, collegial, social, pres­ tigious-and generated some self-doubt, but in retrospect it is not regretted and was perhaps wise. This son's infancy will always be remembered as a time in which I experienced mothering with ease and grace.
Dil:
English