Independent Women in British Psychoanalysis celebrates the lives and work of female psychoanalysts whose significant contributions to the Independent Tradition have hitherto been overshadowed by their male counterparts.
The contributors in this volume look at seven female psychoanalysts who broke new ground with their contributions to theory and practice: Ella Freemen Sharpe, Marjorie Brierley, Paula Heimann, Marion Milner, Enid Balint, Nina Coltart and Pearl King. The chapters tell the individual stories of these psychoanalysts alongside their theories, showing how their personal lives embody and illustrate the essential universal developmental task of becoming oneself and finding one’s own voice. The themes across the chapters include infant and child development with (m)other, trauma, constructive use of aggression, creativity, a theory of clinical technique, and independence of mind in a social world.
This book will be of interest and relevance to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, developmental psychologists, sociologists, group analysts and historians of psychoanalysis, as well as those interested in feminism and women’s position in society.
Author(s): Elizabeth Wolf, Barbie Antonis
Series: Psychoanalysis and Women Series
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 194
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of figures
Acknowledgements
Preface
List of contributors
PART I: Setting the Scene
Introduction: On becoming
1. The core question: ‘What is mind?’
2. Bloomsbury and the early evolution of British psychoanalysis
PART II: Independent Women
3. Ella Sharpe: Being Independent, following Freud
4. The exceptional contributions of Marjorie Brierley: Affects, mediation and countertransference
5. Paula Heimann: Becoming Independent
6. Marion Milner: The pliable self
7. Doing things differently: Pearl King’s independence
8. Nina Coltart’s colourful ways of listening
9. Enid Balint’s imaginative perception: The creation of mutuality in the consulting room
Index