"Nasty Women" - Reclaiming the Power of Female Aggression

A Psychoanalytic Perspective
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-75904-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 288 g

Reihe: Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series

This book addresses the fraught relationship between women and aggression, one troubled by age-old patriarchal forces that disparage women’s ambition, assertion, and voice.

Told from a psychoanalytic perspective, the book details the sociocultural forces that infect a woman’s intrapsychic dynamics and compel her to sacrifice her goals and dreams. Compelling examples are offered from current politics, the author’s own struggles with aggression, and clinical work with female patients who successfully reclaimed their aggression. The book addresses the critical question of how a woman can ever succeed, through the presentation of the author’s detailed and psychoanalytically informed interviews with six powerful and highly influential women. Each woman brings to life the story of her history, influences, and challenges to provide inspiration for others to reimagine their own “nastiness,” as an innovative, vitalizing tool.

This book is distinguished by its unique blend of contemporary life, psychoanalytic practice, feminist theory and gender studies, untold in any other forum or publication. It is essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and all those interested in working with women in a therapeutic setting and understanding their challenges with aggression.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zuckerman

Zuckerman Ph.D., Janet Rivkin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: “Nasty Women”—Forging a New Narrative on Female Aggression  1. The Problem of Women and Aggression 2. Big Girls Don’t Cry: A Personal Story 3. Talia 4. Emma 5. The Problem in Context: The Literature 6. “Nasty” as a Badge of Honor  Part 2: Becoming a “Nasty Woman”—Psychoanalytic Conversations with Women at the Top  7. How do Some Women Make it? 8. Charlotte 9. Mia 10. Tess 11. Margot 12. Sandra 13. Shirley 14. Conversations in Context: The Literature 15. Reflecting on the Interviews 16. A Closer Look at Two Recurring Themes: Navigating the Patriarchy and Impact of the Early Emotional Environment

Über Autor(innen)

Janet Rivkin Zuckerman, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, and previously practicing attorney. She is Former Director, Faculty and Clinical Consultant at the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, and Clinical Consultant at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis. She conducts supervision and study groups in interpersonal/relational psychoanalysis and is in private practice in Rye, NY.