Based on her clinical observations, a psychoanalyst evaluates the basis of female behavior and refutes Freudian concepts of female psychosexual development
Here, examining this ancient story in depth and lighting up the details, Robert A. Johnson has produced an arresting and perceptive exploration of what it means to become a woman.
Developing such a synthesis of the feminine and the masculine in the psychic reality of the individual and of the collective was, he argued, one of the fundamental, future-oriented tasks of both the society and the individual.
What does it mean to be a woman? What is the pathway to mature femininity? These are some of the questions addressed in this perceptive exploration of female psychology. This...
She and Renate were also the moving forces behind the translation and publication of Karen Horney's girlhood diaries—a charming book called The Adolescent Diaries of Karen Horney, published in 1980. I considered the diaries to be the ...
Chronicles the life of the German-born American psychoanalyst whose theories went beyond Freudian orthodoxy and focused on women's issues.
The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (Vol. 11, p. 84). London: Hogarth Press. Freud, S. (1961). ... (also in K. Horney, 1967/1973, Feminine Psychology, H. Kelman et al. [Eds.]) Horney, K. (1926).
Using recent hormonal and neurological research, the author shows how women can use mood swings and life changes to achieve greater health and well being
The Feminine in Jungian Psychology and in Christian Theology investigates the implications for Christian theology of Jung's special insights into the feminine.
In the tradition of Annie Dillard and Natalie Goldberg, this resource for writers and non-writers alike shows the act of writing to be a dynamic means of knowing, healing, and creating the body, mind, and spirit.
Around the world, throughout time, cultures have marked the intimate and transformative events of a woman's life - the onset of puberty, her first sexual experience, conceptian, childbirth, menopause -...