A Woman's Unconscious Use of Her Body: A Psychoanalytical Perspective Book

Drawing on Dinora Pines’ lifetime of clinical experience this classic book provides a psychoanalytic understanding of women’s relationships with their bodies, focusing on key moments in women’s lives.

With chapters organised to follow the female life-cycle, topics covered include:

• the turbulence of adolescence


• pregnancy and childbirth


• infertility and abortion


• menopause and old age


• the traumatic effects of surviving the Holocaust.

With a foreword from Susie Orbach, this book will be of interest to mental health professionals including counsellors, psychotherapists and psychoanalysts.