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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.
Price: $32.00
Pages: 315
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Series: Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies
Publication Date:
29 April 1998
ISBN: 9780231100236
Format: Paperback
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Offers the first critical, systematic, and comprehensive survey of psychoanalytic writings on female homosexuality available in English.... Remarkable not only for being the first such survey to appear in print, and for its sustained attention to both psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice, but especially for its effort to work through Freudian psychoanalysis from a lesbian perspective, questioning and yet retaining both categories––psychoanalysis and lesbianism––in tension with each other.... Immensely valuable.
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.