商品簡介
How do little girls dare to become women? According to Freudian theory this is either a dark mystery or an outcome of "not being" men. However, in the first new attempt by a woman to use Freud's drive theory to explain female development in well over half a century, practitioner Holmes presents a new hypothesis about the way girls use introjection in the case of parental figures to separate from powerful early objects. Holmes uses her own experiences with adolescence and childbirth and those of others as a developmental milestone, along with menopause, and in essence proves the process of development in girls and women continues through the life cycle. She also provides therapists, male and female, with advice on what women want in life and in therapy, how groups of women and women's groups really work, the element of revenge, and the particular mind of the mother. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Lucy Holmes, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She is president of the Society of Modern Psychoanalysts, and a member of the faculty at the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies and the Center for Group Studies in New York. She lectures all over the country and has published numerous articles on psychoanalysis and female development, one of which, The Object Within: Childbirth as a Developmental Milestone, won the Gradiva Award for best article of 2002, presented by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis.
