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).
Medea: Myth and Unconscious Fantasy
1st Edition
By Esa Roos
July 17, 2015
This book introduces the Euripides' Medea fantasy as an unconscious determinant of psychogenic sterility, a fantasy that forms an unrecognized part of the self-representation. It is addressed to people who are interested in womanhood, its fortunes and misfortunes, creativity and destructiveness....
Myths of Mighty Women: Their Application in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
1st Edition
Edited
By Arlene Kramer Richards, Lucille Spira
June 30, 2015
Women whose mothers were not called upon to achieve in a man's world have a difficult time seeing themselves as powerful enough to do that. Identifying with mighty women of the past and of the present culture can help them to permit themselves to achieve more than their mothers did. This book ...
Homosexualities: Psychogenesis, Polymorphism, and Countertransference
1st Edition
Edited
By Elda Abrevaya, Frances Thomson-Salo
May 22, 2015
This latest volume in the Psychoanalysis and Women Series for the Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis of the International Psychoanalytical Association presents and discusses theoretical and clinical work from a number of authors worldwide. It clearly demonstrates that there is no typical ...
Women and Creativity: A Psychoanalytic Glimpse Through Art, Literature, and Social Structure
1st Edition
By Frances Thomson-Salo, Laura Tognoli Pasquali
April 03, 2014
This book addresses aspects of how creativity is viewed in psychoanalytic theory and worked with in the consulting room, with particular reference to human generativity and the life cycle, within the arts in the broadest sense and its workings in society and culture in the widest sense....
Masculinity and Femininity Today
1st Edition
Edited
By Ester Palerm Mari, Frances Thomson-Salo
July 15, 2013
This book presents a wide range of psychoanalytic writing on masculinity and femininity from British, European, and North and South American perspectives, exploring how masculine and feminine aspects are structured and evolve in the child, adolescent and adult. The authors address from a background...
Motherhood in the Twenty-First Century
1st Edition
By Mariam Alizade
December 31, 2006
Mothers in the twenty-first century confront us, both in clinical practice and in theory, with fascinating challenges that to some extent subvert the traditional maternal ideal: the motherhood of single women, motherhood in which the mother-child relationship seems minimal (in the case of very busy...
On Incest: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
1st Edition
By Giovanna Ambrosio
December 31, 2005
Incest is a universal taboo that is found throughout the history and mythology of the majority of societies. A neglected subject in more recent psychoanalytic work, this book was inspired by the COWAP European Conference of 2003. On Incest explores the theories and reasons behind incest, using ...
Masculine Scenarios
1st Edition
By Mariam Alizade
December 31, 2003
'Human identity, sexual identity, primary and secondary identification, object choice, narcissism - all of these lie on a continuum with homosexuality, transsexualism, transvestism, heterosexuality and asexuality. Concepts on sexuality and gender are outlined anew in an interplay of theoretical and...
Studies on Femininity
1st Edition
By Mariam Alizade
December 31, 2003
Studies on Feminity is the second volume in a unique series edited by the author for the Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis of the International Psychoanalytical Association. Providing a forum for exploration and discussion of diverse issues relating to gender constructs, sexuality, and sexual ...
The Embodied Female
1st Edition
By Mariam Alizade
December 31, 2002
The Embodied Female is the first volume of this series for the Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis of the International Psychoanalytical Association. This book brings together highly original and insightful contributions from an international group of renowned psychoanalaysts....
Feminine Sensuality
1st Edition
By Alcira Mariam Alizade
December 31, 1999
This book provides an overview of the events of intimacy, a chronicle of the erogenous events that occur in a woman's body. It discusses the concept of psychoanalysis keeping very close to the body—a body that feels, vibrates, and is repressed, a body that depends on its fellow beings....