Wild Desires and Mistaken Identities: Lesbianism and Psychoanalysis

Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-0-231-10023-6
Verlag: COLUMBIA UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 315 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 133 mm x 195 mm, Gewicht: 345 g

Reihe: Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Connor, Noreen

Ryan, Joanna

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie

Über Autor(innen)

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.