The psychology of today's woman : new psychoanalytic visions / edited by Toni Bernay and Dorothy Cantor. [print]

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Althea J. Horner -- Toni Bernay ; Dorothy W. Cantor -- Traditional Visions of Femininity Reassessed -- Is Freud an enemy of women's liberation? Helen Block Lewis -- Early pathways to female sexuality in advantaged and disadvantaged girls Eleanor Galenson -- New Visions of Femininity -- Reconciling nurturance and aggression : a new feminine identity Toni Bernay -- The self-in-relation : empathy and the mother-daughter relationship Judith V. Jordan ; Janet L. Surrey -- Antigone : symbol of autonomy and women's moral dilemmas Natalie Shainess -- Working mothers : impact on the self, the couple, and the children Ethel Spector Person -- Anger in the mother-daughter relationship Judith Lewis Herman ; Helen Block Lewis -- Today's Woman -- Reproductive motivations and contemporary feminine development Susan L. Williams -- Marriage and divorce : the search for adult identity Dorothy W. Cantor -- Women and work Adrienne Applegarth -- Empty-nest syndrome : possibility or despair Margot Tallmer -- The aging woman : confrontations with hopelessness Vicki Granet Semel -- Issues in the Therapeutic Relationship -- Women feminist patients and a feminist woman analyst Ruth-Jean Eisenbud -- When men are therapists to women : beyond the Oedipal pale Stanley Moldawsky -- Childless women approaching midlife : issues in psychoanalytic treatment Phyllis Ziman-Tobin -- Women's dreams : a nocturnal odyssey Joseph M. Natteron -- Creative and reparative uses of countertransference by women psychotherapists treating women patients : a clinical research study Ellen Bassin Ruderman.

The sexual revolution, oft discussed in the journalistic literature of recent years, has brought in its wake a host of quesitons that are only beginning to be addressed. How are women coping with "real world" challenges for which they may be ill prepared, both socially and psychologically? How successfully are they integrating old and new ego ideals in forging new identities? Is their ostensible "liberation" actually making for a sense of integration and wholeness? The Psychology of Today's Woman: New Psychoanalytic Visions probes these and related questions from the standpoint of both developmental and therapeutic concerns. Taking Freud's notion of female sexuality as a point of departure, editors Toni Bernay and Dorothy Cantor have compiled a collection of original essays that reassesses traditional conceptions of female psychology, proffers new visions of femininity, and explores critical situations in the lives of contemporary women. A final section of the book, of special interest to analysis and psychotherapists, examines various facets of the clinical treatment of women. Collectively, the contributors to this volume articulate a strong challenge to the "deficiency model" of female identity that has long dominated psychoanalytic theory. More impressively still, they offer constructive alternatives to the preconceptions of the past. The contributors converge in the belief that the richness and diversity of female experience cannot be encompassed in the overly simplified definitons and "masculine" analogizing of classical analysis. Whether we investigate the status of "masculinity " and "femininity" as personality traits, the relationship between "nurturance" and "aggression" in female identity, or the meaning of "normality" and "pathology" in treatment situations, we are very much in a realm of multiple truths in which the formulas of the past give little sense of the options of the present or the possibilities of the future.