2nd Edition
Men, Women, Passion and Power Gender Issues in Psychotherapy
By Marie Maguire
Copyright 2004
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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Psychoanalytic theory has often found it difficult to come to terms with issues of power within gender relations. Both theory and clinical practice have tended to replicate the cultural idealisation of men and the denigration of women, splitting masculinity and femininity between the sexes in a way which depletes both. In Men, Women, Passion and Power, Marie Maguire argues that it is only when... Read more
Introduction. Part 1: Theories of Female and Male Sexuality. Sexual and Cross-cultural Controversy. From the Penis to the Womb: Male Sexuality. What Do Women Want? Part 2: Contemporary Debates in Clinical Practice. Are Men Really Fragile? The Power of Women's Sexuality. Gender in the Transference Relationship. False Memories of Sexual Abuse? Female and Male Perversions? Differing Desires. Conclusion: Feminism and Psychotherapy: An Agenda for the Future. Bibliography.
Biography
Marie Maguire is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and clinical supervisor in private practice in South London.
'Marie Maguire brings a fresh and feminist perspective to the way psychoanalysis and its theoreticians have handled the basic issues of 'Men, Women, Passion and Power.'' - Self and Society
