Overview
Based on the author's clinical experience as psychoanalytic psychotherapists, this reconsideration of lesbian lives and lesbian experiences offers a new and thoughtful framework that does not inevitably pathologize or universalize all lesbianism, but instead argues for the development of a psychotherapeutic theory and practice open to the complexities and vicissitudes of individual life histories, relationships, and identities. Surveying a wide range of psychoanalytic ideas about lesbianism, O'Connor and Ryan critically address questions of sexual identity, sexual desire, and gender identity, of transference and countertransference, and also of institutional practices in relation to psychoanalytic training.
Full Product Details
Author: Noreen O'Connor ,
Joanna Ryan
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 20.30cm
Weight: 0.354kg
ISBN: 9780231100236
ISBN 10: 023110023
Pages: 315
Publication Date: 29 April 1998
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Language: English
Reviews
Offers the first critical, systematic, and comprehensive survey of psychoanalytic writings on female homosexuality available in English... Remarkable not only for being the first such survey to appear in print, and for its sustained attention to both psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice, but especially for its effort to work through Freudian psychoanalysis from a lesbian perspective, questioning and yet retaining both categories----psychoanalysis and lesbianism----in tension with each other... Immensely valuable. -- Teresa de Laurentis Journal of the History of Sexuality [This] exhaustive critical review of psychoanalytic theories about female homosexuality is a necessary reference tool for analytic therapists who want to understand the history and development of psychoanalytic thinking on the subject. Clinical Social Work Journal Ranks among the best of recent psychoanalytic work on same-sex object choice... Should prove of great interest to those who are interested primarily in lesbianism and to those who are concerned with the more general issues of the contours and limitations of psychoanalytic theory and discourse. Psychoanalytic Books
Offers the first critical, systematic, and comprehensive survey of psychoanalytic writings on female homosexuality available in English... Remarkable not only for being the first such survey to appear in print, and for its sustained attention to both psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice, but especially for its effort to work through Freudian psychoanalysis from a lesbian perspective, questioning and yet retaining both categories----psychoanalysis and lesbianism----in tension with each other... Immensely valuable. -- Teresa de Laurentis, Journal of the History of Sexuality [This] exhaustive critical review of psychoanalytic theories about female homosexuality is a necessary reference tool for analytic therapists who want to understand the history and development of psychoanalytic thinking on the subject. -- Clinical Social Work Journal Ranks among the best of recent psychoanalytic work on same-sex object choice... Should prove of great interest to those who are interested primarily in lesbianism and to those who are concerned with the more general issues of the contours and limitations of psychoanalytic theory and discourse. -- Psychoanalytic Books
Author Information
Joanna Ryan is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in both private practice and in the voluntary sector. Noreen O'Connor is on the training committee of the Guild of Psychotherapists, London, and works in private practice.
