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Boy Crazy: Remembering Adolescence, Therapies and Dreams
Contributor(s): Sayers, Janet (Author)
ISBN: 0415190851     ISBN-13: 9780415190855
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $46.50  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: July 1998
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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.
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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
 
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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.
Illustrated throughout with fascinating examples from a groundbreaking study of adolescent memories and dreams, Boy Crazy presents an engaging account of this little-researched period of human development. Sayers also draws on her own work as a therapist, and weaves in vignettes from fiction and film, to demonstrate the significance we attach in adulthood to our experiences as adolescents. She suggests that men and women respond differently to the sexual awakening that takes place during their teens, and to their own memories of that part of their life. In relating the findings of her research the author also explores to what extent the theories of Freud, Jung and feminism shape our understanding of the formative effect of adolescent experiences and emotions.
Boy Crazy provides a fascinating insight into the repercussions of adolescence on our adult lives and loves and will appeal to the general and specialist reader alike.