1st Edition

Sexuality Psychoanalytic Perspectives

Edited By Celia Harding Copyright 2001
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

According to the popular imagination, psychoanalysis is about men wanting to sleep with their mothers and women wanting penises. Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Perspectives tells a different story about what has happened to sex in psychoanalysis over the past century. In the book, a range of distinguished contributors challenge the view that sexuality is nothing other than historically and culturally... Read more
Acknowledgments. List of Contributors. Introduction: C. Harding, Making Sense of Sexuality. R. Young, Locating and Relocating Psychoanalytic Ideas of Sexuality. R. Royston, Sexuality and Object Relations. S. Budd, No Sex Please-We're British.: Aspects of Sexuality in British and French Psychoanlysis. J. Thomson, The Madness of Love: A Jungian Perspective on Sexuality. A. Horne, of Bodies and Babies - Sexuality and Sexual Theories in Childhood and Adolescence. M. Maguire, Women's Sexuality in the New Millenium. W. Colman, Celebrating the Phallus. D. Morgan, The Internal Couple and the Oedipus Complex in the Development of Normal and Percerse Sexuality. S. Mendoza, Genital and Phallic Homosexuality. C. Harding, The Power of Sex.

Biography

Celia Harding is a psychodynamic counsellor and psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in East London. She is a member of and Trainig Therapist for, the Foundation of Psychotherapy and Counselling (WPF). She has organised and run courses for professional counsellors and psychotherapists belonging to FPC for the past eight years. She is a Founder Member and Secretary of the Association for Psychotherapy in East London (APEL).