Psychoanalysis and Women Series
About the Book Series
The Women and Psychoanalysis Book Series grew from the work of the International Psychoanalytical Association Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis (COWAP). Publications further the conversations on women, sexuality, gender, men, and psychoanalysis, and intersections with diversity and cross-cultural experience. We value written exchanges between psychoanalysis and related disciplines of gender studies, anthropology, sociology, politics, philosophy, arts and activism. We encourage contributions from all regions, allowing for global perspectives and different creativities on topics relating to women, gender and sexuality. The series editorial board is comprised of Paula Ellman (Editor-in-Chief, North America), Carolina Bacchi (North America) Sara Boffito (Italy), Lesley Caldwell (UK), Amrita Narayana (India), and Paula Escribens Pareja (Peru).
Revisiting Psychic Bisexuality: The Feminine Within
1st Edition
Edited
By Ana Teresa Vale, Nadja Tröger
December 11, 2025
Revisiting Psychic Bisexuality: The Feminine Within explores the complexities of psychosexual development from a psychoanalytic perspective, challenging traditional ideals and theories. Viewing the feminine and the masculine as an interdependent dyad in the human psyche, this book examines the ...
Psychoanalytic Explorations into the Primal Relationship in Japan and India
1st Edition
By Osamu Kitayama, Jhuma Basak
July 10, 2025
In this landmark collaboration, Osamu Kitayama and Jhuma Basak chronical their long-standing collaboration and cultural exchange to survey the importance of familial relationships in Japan and India, exploring primal relations through a cross-cultural psychoanalytic lens. Divided into three ...
Pregnancy, Assisted Reproduction, and Psychoanalysis
1st Edition
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By Renata Viola Vives, Ana Teresa Vale
September 24, 2024
Pregnancy, Assisted Reproduction, and Psychoanalysis reflects on contemporary views on pregnancy, while offering guidance on how to work with women and couples experiencing infertility as well as the unique issues raised by having a child through assisted reproduction technologies. Comprised of ...
Independent Women in British Psychoanalysis: Creativity and Authenticity at Work
1st Edition
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By Elizabeth Wolf, Barbie Antonis
August 09, 2023
Independent Women in British Psychoanalysis celebrates the lives and work of female psychoanalysts whose significant contributions to the Independent Tradition have hitherto been overshadowed by their male counterparts. The contributors in this volume look at seven female psychoanalysts who broke ...
The Desire and Passion for a Child: Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Reproductive Techniques
1st Edition
By Patricia Alkolombre
June 05, 2023
In this book, Patricia Alkolombre explores the desire for a child from a contemporary psychoanalytic perspective, and covers the questions raised in the face of new resources offered by reproductive medicine. This volume reviews traditional psychoanalytic conceptualisations from the perspective of ...
Psychoanalytic Explorations of What Women Want Today: Femininity, Desire and Agency
1st Edition
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By Margarita Cereijido, Paula L Ellman, Nancy Goodman
May 10, 2022
In this book, international psychoanalytic writers address the question ‘What do Women Want Today?’ from a variety of lenses, bringing into focus the creative, resilient forces shown by women in their multiple social and psychological tasks. The book reviews classic psychoanalytic theories about ...
Psychoanalytic and Socio-Cultural Perspectives on Women in India: Violence, Safety and Survival
1st Edition
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By Paula Ellman, Jhuma Basak, Gertraud Schlessinger-Kipp
July 09, 2021
This important book provides a bridge between psychoanalytic perspectives and socio-cultural issues to shine a spotlight on the experiences of women in India today. Women’s well-being and security has often depended upon their gender positioning while other binaries like rural-urban, class, and&...
Changing Notions of the Feminine: Confronting Psychoanalysts' Prejudices
1st Edition
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By Margarita Cereijido
December 04, 2018
As culture changes, so do notions of the feminine. Today, women are exploring new gender identities, gender dynamics, and family configurations. They are questioning and redefining what it is to be feminine and expressing different attitudes toward motherhood. These issues have challenged classic ...
When a Child Has Been Abused: Towards Psychoanalytic Understanding and Therapy
1st Edition
By Frances Thomson-Salo, Laura Tognoli Pasquali
September 18, 2018
This important and wide-ranging book explores the world of a child or young person who has been abused or neglected. It seeks to understand their world, to ease the pain from which they suffer, and to heal the wounds that the abuse has left. Examining how abuse always takes place in the context of...
The Courage to Fight Violence Against Women: Psychoanalytic and Multidisciplinary Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Paula L. Ellman, Nancy Goodman
June 28, 2017
This book shows how violence against woman can be seen, known and represented on the world stage and in psychoanalytic treatment. It brings psychoanalytic ideas and understanding in an effort to comprehend violence against women....
Changing Sexualities and Parental Functions in the Twenty-First Century: Changing Sexualities, Changing Parental Functions
1st Edition
By Candida Se Holovko
March 02, 2017
Recent societal changes have challenged long-established concepts in psychoanalysis, including the Oedipus complex, parental functions, and male and female psychosexuality. 'Postmodern families', based on sexual and emotional exchanges independent of gender, now include homoerotic couples who adopt...
The Status of Women: Violence, Identity, and Activism
1st Edition
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By Vivian B. Pender
October 06, 2016
This book examines the status of women in different eras and in different areas of society. The contributors draw on their international experience to consider how women are viewed and treated in society today and offer perspectives on why the status of women and girls has not changed in some areas....