Independent Women in British Psychoanalysis

Creativity and Authenticity at Work
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-28403-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 194 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 464 g

Reihe: Psychoanalysis and Women Series

Independent Women in British Psychoanalysis celebrates the lives and work of female psychoanalysts whose significant contributions to the Independent Tradition have hitherto been overshadowed by their male counterparts.

The contributors in this volume look at seven female psychoanalysts who broke new ground with their contributions to theory and practice: Ella Freemen Sharpe, Marjorie Brierley, Paula Heimann, Marion Milner, Enid Balint, Nina Coltart and Pearl King. The chapters tell the individual stories of these psychoanalysts alongside their theories, showing how their personal lives embody and illustrate the essential universal developmental task of becoming oneself and finding one’s own voice. The themes across the chapters include infant and child development with (m)other, trauma, constructive use of aggression, creativity, a theory of clinical technique, and independence of mind in a social world.

This book will be of interest and relevance to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, developmental psychologists, sociologists, group analysts and historians of psychoanalysis, as well as those interested in feminism and women’s position in society.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wolf, Elizabeth

Antonis, Barbie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I Setting the Scene

Introduction: On Becoming

1. The Core Question: ‘What is mind?’

2. Bloomsbury and the early evolution of British psychoanalysis

Part II Independent Women

3. Ella Sharpe: Being Independent, following Freud

4. The Exceptional contributions of Marjory Brierley: affects, mediation and countertransference

5. Paula Heimann: Becoming Independent

6. Marion Milner: The Pliable Self

7. Doing things differently: Pearl King's independent contribution

8. Nina Coltart's Colourful ways of Listening

9. Enid Balint’s imaginative perception: the creation of mutuality in the consulting room

Über Autor(innen)

Elizabeth Wolf is a training and supervising analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society and works full-time in psychoanalytic private practice.

Barbie Antonis is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytic Society, teaches at the British Society and is co-Chair of the Winnicott Trust.