The Psychology of today's woman : new psychoanalytic visions / edited by Toni Bernay, Dorothy W. Cantor.

Includes bibliographic references and indexes.

Foreword - Althea J. Horner. Introduction - Toni Bernay and Dorothy W. Cantor. Part 1 - Traditional visions of femininity reassessed. Is Freud an enemy of women's liberation? Some historical considerations - Helen Block Lewis. Early pathways to female sexuality in advantaged and disadvantaged girls - Eleanor Galenson. Part 2 - New visions of femininity. Reconciling nurturance and aggression: a new feminine identity - Toni Bernay. The self-in-relation: empathy and the mother-daughter relationship - Judith V. Jordan and Janet L. Surrey. Antigone: symbol of autonomy and women's moral dilemmas - Natalie Shainess. Working mothers: impact on the self, the couple, and the children - Ethel Spector Person. Anger in the mother-daughter relationship - Judith Lewis Herman and Helen Block Lewis. Part 3 - Today's woman. Reproductive motivations and contemporary feminine development - Susan L. Williams. Marriage and divorce: the search for adult identity - Dorothy W. Cantor. Women and work - Adrienne Applegart. Empty-nest syndrome: possibility or despair - Margot Tallmer. The aging woman: confrontations with hopelessness - Vicki Granet Semel. Part 4 - Issues in the therapeutic relationship. Women feminist patients and a feminist woman analyst - Ruth-Jean Eisenbud. When men are therapists to women: beyond the Oedipal pale - Stanley Moldawsky. Childless women approaching midlife: issues in psychoanalytic treatment - Phyllis Ziman-Tobin. Women's dreams: a nocturnal odyssey - Joseph M. Natterson. Creative and reparative uses of countertransference by women psychotherapists treating women patients: a clinical research study - Ellen Bassin Ruderman

'This excellent collection of innovative articles--largely by women analysts--reflects a more contemporary psychoanalytic vision of women....Feminine psychology demands a change in Freudian orthodoxy. As this provocative book suggests, for psychoanalysis to be relevant today a fresh examination of theoretical perspective must take place.'