New Edition in 2008 - Female Experience: Three Generations of British Women Psychoanalysts on Work with Women. New Prefaces and Chapters
Edited by Joan Raphael-Leff & Rosine Jozef Perelberg. 
Published: London, New York: Routledge.
Female Experience now brings together contributions from four generations of British women psychoanalysts writing about their own experiences of working with female patients and questioning the specific determinants of female sexuality and gender identity which have become central in psychoanalytic debate. The authors represent a cross-section of different theoretical orientations and draw on varied professional backgrounds. Individual chapters cover different phases of the female life cycle, with overarching themes of relationships, mourning, female creativity and the obstacles to it. Specifically the authors deal with female bodily representations, phantasies, desires, sexual abuse, eating disorders, child-bearing, perinatal loss and postnatal depression, and early exchanges between mother and baby, as these have arisen in the female to female psychoanalytic encounter.
The insight this book gives into the woman analyst’s way of listening to and understanding women’s preoccupations, and the introductions to theoretical debate illustrate why British analysts have made such a huge contribution to the psychoanalytic gender debate in the past and more recently.
Both editors are widely published Fellows of the British Psycho-Analytical Society and Members of the International Psychoanalytical Association.
Joan Raphael-Leff, Visiting Professor at UCL, leads the Academic Faculty for Psychoanalytic Research at the Anna Freud Centre and a government funded training programme for professionals working with teenage parents.
Rosine Jozef Perelberg is a Training Analyst and Supervisor of the British Psycho-Analytical Society, and Visiting Professor in the Psycho-analysis Unit at UCL. Co-convenor of the British-French Colloquium in Sexuality
Contributors:
Barbie Antonis, Enid Balint; Catalina Bronstein; Dana Birksted-Breen; Marion Burgner; Alicia Etchegoyen; Gioglia Fornari Spoto, Paola Mariotti; Maggie Mills; Rosine Jozef Perelberg; Dinora Pines; Joan Raphael-Leff; Joan Riviere; Joan Schachter, Valerie Sinason; Deborah Steiner; Maria A. Tallandini; Jane Temperley, Elizabeth Wolf.
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