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In this groundbreaking re-visioning of lesbianism, Magee and Miller transcend a literature that, for decades, has focused on the timeworn and misconceived task of formulating a lesbian-specific psychology. Rather, they focus on a set of interrelated issues of far greater salience in our time: the developmental and psychological consequences of identifying as homosexual and of having lesbian relationships. Their consideration of these issues leads to a rigorous review of major psychoanalytic and biological theories about female homosexuality and a probing examination of current notions of gender identity. These tasks set the stage for Magee and Miller's own model of psychologically mature sex...
About this Book... "Here is a book that both creates and illuminates the space where psychoanalysis, feminism, gender studies, and sexualities join. . . . A collection of cutting edge work that brims with the excitement of new possibility." -Dr. Sam Gerson Combining clinical psychoanalysis with feminism, postmodernism, and psychoanalytic theory, this pioneering collection represents a major step forward in psychoanalytic gender studies.
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As American Melancholy reveals, if you read about depression anywhere today--medical journal, popular magazine, National Institute of Mental Health pamphlet, or pharmaceutical company drug promotional literature--you will find three main pieces of information either explicitly stated or strongly implied: depression is a disease (like any other physical disease); it is extraordinarily prevalent in the world; and it occurs about twice as frequently in women as in men. Yet, depression was not classified as a disease until the 1980 publication of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-III (DSM-III). How is it that such an illness, thought to affect between 14 an...
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Description of Content: 1) Women's Masochism and Ambivalence about Ambition and Success, Ellen Ruderman 2) Contemporary Psychoanalytic Voices in North America: The Death of Gender Stereotypes or the Birth of New Fictions of Femininity?, Jean Sanville 3) Attachment and Women, Pat Sable 4) The Development of Attachment and Affect Regulation in Infancy and Childhood with Possible Clues to Psychological Gender, Judith Schore 5) Life on the Border: Latinas and American-Indian Women, Rita Ledesma 6) Asian-American Women: Issues for Clinical Practice, Amy Iwasaki Mass 7) Clinical Issues with African-American Women, Martha Watson 8) Women in Midlife: Myth and Metamorphosis, Rosalyn Benitez-Bloch 9) ...