Boy Crazy: Remembering Adolescence, Therapies and Dreams Contributor(s): Sayers, Janet (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415190851 ISBN-13: 9780415190855 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $46.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1998 Annotation: Illustrated throughout with fascinating examples from a groundbreaking study of school and university students' adolescent memories and dreams, "Boy Crazy" weaves together telling vignettes from fiction and film with the author's own work as a therapist. Janet Sayers controversially argues that men and women often pursue radically different paths in response to the sexual "awakening" of adolescence, while also often being alike in seeking to resolve the divisions and conflicts involved through flight into male-centered idealization of themselves or others as heroic saviors or gods. In describing this aspect of both sexes' formation, "Boy Crazy" provides an important introduction to recent findings and theories in developmental and clinical psychology, particularly its Freudian, Jungian and feminist variants. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Developmental - Adolescent - Psychology | Clinical Psychology - Psychology | Psychotherapy - Child & Adolescent |
Dewey: 155.5 |
LCCN: 98010662 |
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6.46" W x 9.2" (0.69 lbs) 196 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In answering these questions, Janet Sayers highlights the revolution wrought in both sexes' psychology by adolescence, particularly by its fantasies of divided selves and loves and of 'boy crazy' grandiosity and romance. |