Female experience - Joan Raphael-Leff

Since Freud, all psychoanalysts have been aware of the constraints of gender which are manifested as transference in the therapeutic process.
In Female Experience, fifteen contributors from different theoretical groupings discuss their experiences in working with female patients, covering subjects such as:
* sexual abuse
* eating disorders
* childbearing
* perinatal loss and postnatal depression
* the mother and child relationship
The analysis of women by women has made a valuable contribution to the development of psychoanalysis. The insight this gives into the determinants of gender identity will be of interest to practising psychotherapists both male and female, and to gender studies and therapy students.