Lesbians, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis: The Second Wave

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Get a feminist perspective on important changes in psychoanalysis! Lesbians, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis: The Second Wave examines recent changes in psychoanalysis that have opened the door for new perspectives on same-sex desire. Authors from a variety of disciplines and theoretical orientations combine feminism with psychoanalytic and postmodern theories to celebrate diversity in gender and... Read more

Get a feminist perspective on important changes in psychoanalysis!

Lesbians, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis: The Second Wave examines recent changes in psychoanalysis that have opened the door for new perspectives on same-sex desire. Authors from a variety of disciplines and theoretical orientations combine feminism with psychoanalytic and postmodern theories to celebrate diversity in gender and sexual experience. This collection of lesbian-affirmative writings addresses transference and countertransference, gender subjectivities, privilege and racism, therapist homophobia, and violence in lesbian relationships.

In the past decade, psychoanalysis has undergone changes in clinical theory that have led to views on human sexuality that are less focused on what is “normal” and therapy practices that resist attempts to fit individuals into prescribed developmental models. Lesbians, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis presents a variety of backgrounds (psychiatry, psychology, and social work), analytic training (formal institute training, study groups, supervision), and theoretical perspectives (self-psychology, object relations, relational psychoanalysis, feminist theory, queer theory, postmodernism, Lacanian theory) unified by the healing power of psychoanalytically informed theory and practice.

The book is divided into three sections—“Community: Personal and Political,” “Ongoing Clinical Issues,” and “New Thinking on Sexuality and Gender,” addressing lesbian tomboy development, the queering of relational psychoanalysis, how attachment theory and intersubjectivity can contribute to newer gender theory, and including:

interviews with lesbian psychoanalytic foremothers Joanne Spina, Lee Crespi, and Judy Levitz
Dr. Darla Bjork’s account of her journey to becoming an openly lesbian therapist
contrasting views on transference and countertransference from gay and lesbian therapists
and much more!

Lesbians, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis: The Second Wave is an essential practical resource for clinicians and a vital classroom tool for academics working in psychology, social work, psychoanalysis, gender and women’s studies, queer studies, and lesbian and gay studies. Read less

Introduction: Lesbians, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis: The Second Wave
COMMUNITY AND HISTORY: PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
Lesbian Psychoanalytic Foremothers Making Waves: Interviews with Joanne Spina, Lee Crespi, and Judy Levitz
It Takes a Community
African American Lesbians and Other Culturally Diverse People in Psychodynamic Psychotherapies: Useful Paradigms or Oxymoron?
Building Lesbian Sandcastles on the Shore of Relational Psychoanalysis
ONGOING CLINICAL ISSUES
Disclosure and the Development of Trust in the Therapeutic Setting
Clinical Success, Political Failure? Reflections on the “Interiority” of Abusive Lesbian Relations
Transference and Countertransference in Therapy with Lesbian Patients: Contrasting Views from Lesbian and Heterosexual Therapists
Lesbian Tomboys and “Evolutionary Butch”
NEW THINKING ON SEXUALITY AND GENDER
The Queering of Relational Psychoanalysis: Who’s Topping Whom?
Engorging the Lesbian Clitoris: Opposing the Phallic Cultural Unconscious
Perilous Crossings: Tales of Gender, Identification, and Exiled Desires
Index
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Judith Glassgold, Suzanne Iasenza

Lesbians, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis The Second Wave

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