Joan Offerman-Zuckerberg

Critical Psychophysical Passages in the Life of a Woman

A Psychodynamic Perspective

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

After the birth of my second son some 11 years ago, I was painfully torn by the timing of my reentry to work-my wish to return to a prestigious and stimulating position as chief psychologist of a large agency, or my equally powerful wish to enjoy fully my beautiful new son's infancy, undivided and untorn. At the time I had a dream that my body was cut in half at the waist-my head leaned to the books neatly contained on the library shelves; my belly went to the crib, all sweet-smelling and soft. Not having had the opportunity to be "un divided" with my first son (now 17 years old), I chose to resign my agency position and stay home as long as I wished and then develop my private practice. It was a decision that at the time entailed much loss-cerebral, collegial, social, pres tigious-and generated some self-doubt, but in retrospect it is not regretted and was perhaps wise. This son's infancy will always be remembered as a time in which I experienced mothering with ease and grace.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer US / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-306-42639-1
• 1988.
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 1988
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780306426391
• ISBN-10: 0306426390
• Artikelnr.: 27634780

Inhaltsangabe

I - Early Developmental Themes: The Emotional Birth of the Female.- 1 - Psychohistorical Reflections on Changing Body Images for Women.- 2 - Early Female Development: From Birth through Latency.- 3 - Reflections on the Daughter as a Projective Screen: Mother-Daughter Boundaries.- 4 - The Father's Role in the Self-Development of His Daughter.- II - Female Passages of the Body-Self.- 5 - Menarche and Menstruation: Psychoanalytic Implications.- 6 - Motivations for Motherhood and the Nature of the Self-Object Tie.- 7 - Psychoanalytic Aspects of Pregnancy.- III - From Body-Self to Other.- 8 - Psychology of Childbirth.- 9 - The Postpartum Period: Analytic Reflections on the Potential for Agony and Ecstasy.- 10 - The Nursing Experience: A Clinical Study.- 11 - Emotional Aspects of Pregnancy and Childbirth.- IV - Later Developmental Themes.- 12 - A Study of Menopausal Women in Analytic Treatment.- 13 - Menopause: Myth and Reality.- V - Twentieth Century Female Issues and Problems.- 14 - Body Image in the 21st Century.- 15 - Psychodynamics of Abortion: Regression or Rebirth?.- 16 - Women and Eating Disorders.- 17 - Psychological Consequences of Infertility.- Overview: Biotechnology and the 21st Century.