Female identity conflict in clinical practice Book

	Preface
	Portrait of an Analyst: Doris Bernstein (1932-1990)
	Introduction
1	Gender-Specific Attribution of Identity	1
	Developmental Considerations in Gender Specificity	3
	Perspectives on Anxiety	5
	The Shape of the Superego in Women	7
	Gender Mythology, Fairy Tales, and the Oedipal Situation	10
	Dyad: The Deepening of the Clinical Process	13
2	Female Identity Synthesis	17
	Some Issues in Separation-Individuation	21
	Aspects of Superego Development that Interfere with Autonomy	26
	Problems in Forming Adaptive Identifications	32
3	Female Genital Anxieties, Conflicts, and Typical Mastery Modes	39
	Access, Penetration, and Diffusivity Anxieties	43
	Female Mastery Efforts	48
	Inherent Conflicts	57
	Genital Anxieties and Object Relationships	67
4	The Female Superego: A Different Perspective	69
	Toward a Perspective on the Gender-Specific Superego	69
	The Attributes of the Superego: Strength, Contents, and Structure	74
	Gender Assignment and Body Experience	79
	Narcissism and Identification	88
	Clinical Documentation	95
	Recapitulation: The Female Superego	96
5	The Female Oedipal Complex	101
	Gender-Specific Conflicts during the Oedipal Phase	118
	Genital Anxieties during the Oedipal Phase	124
	Penis Envy from a "Differentiation Perspective"	126
	Father and Daughter	131
	The Oedipal Dangers	135
	Parental Relationships and Identification	136
6	Gender Specific Dangers in the Female/Female Dyad in Treatment	143
	Analysts' Vulnerabilities	145
	Clinical Documentation	148
	The Emergence of Genital Anxieties in Dyadic Interaction	155
7	On Cinderella	159
2 Cinderellas	Pretty and Sweet (Perrault)	160
	Forceful and Resourceful (Grimm)
	The Oedipal Phase through the Comparative Study of Myth	171
	References	181
	Credits	189
	Index	191