Women Beyond Freud: New Concepts Of Feminine Psychology

by Berger,Milton M.

• ISBN13: 9780876307090
• ISBN10: 0876307098
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-11-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This volume contains the proceedings of a historic meeting, attended by over 2,000 mental health professionals and lay people, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Karen Horney Psychoanalytic Centre in New York City. Each contributor to this book offers unique insight into the seminal work of Karen Horney, one of the first psychoanalysts to question Freud's male-centred theories and clinical practices.; The book includes accounts of the formative girlhood experiences that awakened Horney's spirit of independence and the intellectual and cultural currents of her time that influenced her work. A contribution by a Preeminent Sex Therapist Challenges The Notion That Liberated Women threaten the potency of men. Other contributors define the characteristics of relationships that foster or hinder women's psychological growth and discuss the conflicts faced by adolescent girls as they become aware of gender differences.

Table of Contents

About the Contributors
Introduction
Awakened to Life: Sources of Independence in the Girlhood of Karen Horney	p. 1
Karen Horney's Feminine Psychology and the Passions of Her Time	p. 15
Discussion of the Papers by Susan Quinn and Marianne Horney Eckardt	p. 31
The Myth of the New Impotence: Update for the 1990s	p. 43
Discussion of the Paper by Helen Singer Kaplan	p. 63
Women's Psychological Development: Connections, Disconnections, and Violations	p. 79
Joining the Resistance: Psychology, Politics, Girls and Women	p. 99
Discussion of the Papers by Jean Baker Miller and Carol Gilligan	p. 147
Discussion of the Papers by Jean Baker Miller and Carol Gilligan	p. 153
Epilogue	p. 161
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