| Storms in Her Head Contributor(s): Dimen, Muriel (Author) |
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ISBN: 1892746239 ISBN-13: 9781892746238 Publisher: Other Press (NY) OUR PRICE: $23.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1999 Annotation: It was through his early encounters with women in distress that Freud began to develop radically new understandings of symptoms and the relationship between doctor and patient. A century after it was written as a founding document of psychoanalysis, Breuer and Freud's Studies on Hysteria still challenges us with questions about the location of psychic pain in the body and about the role of culture in the ways that understood, and treated. In this volume, many of today's most renowned psychoanalysts come together to reread these case reports with modern eyes. They reflect on how six women, different, in character and social situation yet alike in their experience of suffering, continue to engage us with problems of theory and practice: the workings of analytic authority and power, the changing definitions of sexuality, gender roles and psychopathology; the self-experience of women in the patriarchal settings of culture and classical psychoanalysis; the controversies over sexual abuse and the effects of trauma; the recognition of homosexuality and bisexuality; the role of speech and its relation to the experience of the body; the modes of listening and responding to the patient that relieve psychic pain or perpetuate it; and the ways in which the treatment process offers the possibility of change not only to the patient but also to the analyst and to psychoanalysis itself. Each of these papers is a major contribution to current psychoanalytic thinking about the influence of culture on the mind the body, and clinical process. Together, they offer a kaleidoscope of perspectives, an eclectic and lively set of opinions on Freud, his hysterical patients, and the psychoanalytic journey theybegan together. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Movements - Psychoanalysis - Social Science | Women's Studies - Psychology | Psychopathology - Compulsive Behavior |
| Dewey: 616.891 |
| LCCN: 00035689 |
| Physical Information: 1.02" H x 6.03" W x 9.02" (1.46 lbs) 300 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A century after it was written, Breuer and Freud s Studies on Hysteria continues to challenge. In Storms in Her Head, many of today s most renowned psychoanalysts and cultural theorists revisit the cases it contains, reflecting on how six suffering women continue to engage us with problems of theory and practice. Each author offers a major contribution to current psychoanalytic thinking about culture and its influence on the mind, the body and clinical process. Storms in Her Head offers an eclectic and lively set of opinions on Freud, his hysterical patients, and the psychoanalytic journey they began together. |