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Copyright 2003 International Psychoanalytical Association
Copyright 2003 Arrangement and Foreword by Alcira Mariam Alizade
Chapter 1 2003 Danielle Quinodoz
Chapter 2 2003 Monique Cournut-Janin
Chapter 3 2003 Nancy J. Chodorow
Chapter 4 2003 Gertraud Schlesinger-Kipp
Chapter 5 2003 Matilde Ureta de Caplansky
Chapter 6 2003 Simona Argentieri Bondi
Chapter 7 2003 Frances Thomson-Salo
Chapter 8 2003 Teresa Rocha Leite Haudenschild
Chapter 9 2003 Emma Piccioli and Giangaetano Bartolomei
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FOREWORD
COWAP, the Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis of the International Psychoanalytical Association, is both pleased and proud to present this second book, Studies on Femininity, of its series which provides a forum for discussion of issues involving sexuality, sexual identity, and gender constructs in a cross-cultural and international context.
The remit of the Committee is to investigate sexuality, interactions, and relationships between men and women. With this in mind, Studies on Femininity reviews certain theoretical and clinical conceptualizations of femininity and motherhood. Gender issues are considered in the frame of life periods (adolescence, adulthood, menopause).
In this volume, the reader will find not only papers from different essentialist, constructivist, and culture-based standpoints, but will also note the existence of theoretical and clinical intersections where psychoanalysis borders on closely-related disciplines.
Historically, sexuality, as viewed by psychoanalysis, is wide-ranging and encompasses heterogeneous forms that involve subjectivity, scenarios recorded in the psychic flesh, and inevitable psycho-physical and socio-cultural events.
In this book, classical areas of psychoanalysis are conjugated with postmodern questions and with new hypothesis to form a kind of heterogeneous, pluralistic spectrum defined to some extent by time and influenced by social factors that participate in the genesis and development of psychodynamics.
Maternal functions, as well as concepts of femininity, are outlined anew in an interplay of theoretical and clinical networks, with the aim of increasing the efficiency of analytic praxis freed from prejudice and monolithic convention.
The hope of the Committee is that these papers will encourage future volumes with the aim of opening up further pathways into psychoanalytic exploration.
Alcira Mariam Alizade
Chairperson,
Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis of the
International Psychoanalytical Association.
CONTRIBUTORS
Simona Argentieri Bondi is a training and supervising analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytical Association (AlPsi) and of the International Psychoanalytical Association. Her main scientific interests include the mind-body relationship, psychosomatic medicine, and gender identity and she has published extensively in these fields. Besides her full time clinical practice she has been involved in the field of bio-ethics, in teaching at Universities and in active psychoanalytic divulgation in the mass media. She has dedicated much thought to the relationship between psychoanalysis and culture and art, particularly the cinema. She is the author of many essays and books on the above subjects, including Freud in Hollywood, The Babel of the Unconscious and The Maternal Father.
Giangaetano Bartolomei, PhD, is a member of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society and works in private practice in Florence. He teaches Sociology of Knowledge at the University of Pisa.
Nancy J. Chodorow is professor of Sociology and clinical professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, faculty member of the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, and in private practice in Oakland, CA. Her books include the award-winning The Reproduction of Mothering, Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theory, Femininities, Masculinities, Sexualities, and The Power of Feelings (winner of the L. Bryce Boyer Price). She is American Book Review Editor of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis and Associate Editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality. She is recipient of the Distinguished Contributor Women and Psychoanalysis Award of Section 5 of Division 39. Her most recent fellowship was at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard, 2001-2002.
Monique Cournut-Janin is a psychiatrist and a training member of the Society Psychanalytique de Paris. She is a former coordinator of the Jean Favreau Consultation and Treatment Centre. In addition to her work as present training secretary of the S.P.P., she is a consultant member of the Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis of the International Psychoanalytical Association (COWAP). Among other texts, she has written Feminin et FiminM (1998).
Emma Piccioli, MD, is a member of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society and a training and supervising analyst. She works in private practice in Florence.
Danielle Quinodoz is a training analyst of the Swiss Psychoanalytical Society and works as a full-time adult psychoanalyst in private practice in Geneva. She was a Consultant in the Psychiatric Department of the Geneva University. She has published more than 40 psychoanalytical papers, mainly in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and in the Revue Frangaise de Psychanalysis. She is the author of Emotional Vertigo, Between Anxiety and Pleasure (1994) and Words that Touch: A Psychoanalyst Learns to Speak (2003). She was awarded the Sacerdoti Prize in 1989, and the Prix Psychologie 1995 in Paris for her book on vertigo.
Teresa Rocha Leite Haudenschild is a training analyst and analyst of children and adolescents with the Brazilian Psychoanalytical Society of Sao Paulo, and full member of the International Psychoanalytical Association. She has been working in the field of clinical psychoanalysis for almost 30 years, particularly studying early symbolization and the constitution of identity, and has published in Brazilian, Latin-American and European journals and collections. She is currently a delegate of the COWAP in Sao Paulo, regional editor of the Revista Brasileira de Psicandlise (Brazilian Psychoanalytic Journal), and co-editor in the Publications Department of the Sao Paulo Psychoanalytical Society.
Gertraud Schlesinger-Kipp is a full member and training analyst of the German Psychoanalytical Association and the International Psychoanalytical Association. Since 1995, she has been head of the Alexander-Mitscherlich-Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Kassel and has published widely in areas concerning psychotherapy with elderly patients, female identity and aging, psychodynamic aspects of climacteric change and menopause, gender and transference-counter-transference.
Frances Thomson-Salo is an adult and child psychoanalyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society, and a training analyst of the Australian Psychoanalytical Society. She works in private practice, and is~ a senior child psychotherapist at the Royal Childrens Hospital, Melbourne, and a senior lecturer on the University of Melbourne Masters in Infant Mental Health. She has published on the topic of work with infants and children.
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