The psychology of women, vol. 1 : a psychoanalytic interpretation

Foreword by Stanley Cobb.

1 Puberty. 2 Early puberty. 3 Puberty and adolescence. 4 Menstruation. 5 Eroticism: the feminine woman. 6 Feminine passivity. 7 Feminine masochism. 8 The "active" woman: the masculinity complex. 9 Homosexuality. 10 The influence of the environment

'The purpose of this book is to explain the normal psychic life of women and their normal conflicts. We know that degree of psychic health is not determined by the absence of conflicts, but by the adequacy of the methods used to solve and master them. Pathology reveals the normal conflicts and helps us to understand normal processes in the light of morbid ones...For the study of feminine psychology, neurotic behavior is particularly rich in implications. For this reason, case histories of neuroses are frequently cited here as evidence; the phenomena they portray, although not "normal," often represent only a distortion or quantitative intensification of the "normal"....

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