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Overview
Get a feminist perspective on important changes in psychoanalysis!
Lesbians, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis: The Second Wave examines recent changes in psychoanalysis that have opened the door for new perspectives on same-sex desire. Authors from a variety of disciplines and theoretical orientations combine feminism with psychoanalytic and postmodern theories to celebrate diversity in gender and sexual experience. This collection of lesbian-affirmative writings addresses transference and countertransference, gender subjectivities, privilege and racism, therapist homophobia, and violence in lesbian relationships.
In the past decade, psychoanalysis has undergone changes in clinical theory that have led to views on human sexuality that are less focused on what is normal and therapy practices that resist attempts to fit individuals into prescribed developmental models. Lesbians, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis presents a variety of backgrounds (psychiatry, psychology, and social work), analytic training (formal institute training, study groups, supervision), and theoretical perspectives (self-psychology, object relations, relational psychoanalysis, feminist theory, queer theory, postmodernism, Lacanian theory) unified by the healing power of psychoanalytically informed theory and practice.
The book is divided into three sections—Community: Personal and Political, Ongoing Clinical Issues, and New Thinking on Sexuality and Gender, addressing lesbian tomboy development, the queering of relational psychoanalysis, how attachment theory and intersubjectivity can contribute to newer gender theory, and including:
- interviews with lesbian psychoanalytic foremothers Joanne Spina, Lee Crespi, and Judy Levitz
- Dr. Darla Bjork’s account of her journey to becoming an openly lesbian therapist
- contrasting views on transference and countertransference from gay and lesbian therapists
- and much more!
Synopsis
Psychoanalytically influenced contributors write about lesbian concerns now that efforts by lesbian, gay, and bisexual scholars have created more latitude than previously to use psychoanalysis to study sexual orientation and gender. They cover personal and political perspectives on community and history, ongoing clinical issues, and new thinking on sexuality and gender. The 12 articles are also published as the Journal of Lesbian Studies vol. 8, nos. 1/2 (2004). Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR