This latest volume in the Psychoanalysis and Women Series for the Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis of the International Psychoanalytical Association presents and discusses theoretical and clinical work from a number of authors worldwide. It clearly demonstrates that there is no typical development of homosexuality and that each individual’s object-choice can only be grasped by examining their psychic history. While the therapeutic work requires no special adaptation of technique, countertransferential difficulties which may arise and stem in part from cultural representations about gender differences are fully explored. The book includes a unique retrospective view by Ralph Roughton over three time points which charts changes in considering the analyst’s response within the wider cultural context. Table of Contents: Acknowledgements About the Editors and Contributors Series Editor’s Foreword Introduction by Elda Abrevaya 1) Gender as heritage of the first qualitative differentiation—Paul Denis 2) Male homosexuality in analytic treatment—Jacques Andre 3) Discussion of “Male homosexuality in analytic treatment”, by Jacques Andre—Giovanna Ambrosio 4) The two analyses of a gay man: the interplay of social change and psychoanalytic understanding—Ralph Roughton 5) The same and the other: homosexuality in adolescence—Monique Cournut 6) Discussion of “The same and the other: homosexuality in adolescence”, by Monique Cournut—Juan-Eduardo Tesone 7) The obscure object of desire—Ferhan Ozenen 8) Inside Sisyphus’s nightmare: destructive narcissism and death instinct—Raquel Cavaleiro Ferreira 9) Discussion of “Inside Sisyphus’s nightmare: destructive narcissism and death instinct”, by Raquel Cavaleiro Ferreira—Martina Burdet 10) Homosexuality and the parental figures—Ester Palerm Mari and Teresa Flores 11) The two faces of the medallion—Ayse Kurtul 12) Discussion of “The two faces of the medallion”, by Ayse Kurtul—Ingrid Moeslein-Teising 13) A woman looking for a woman—F. Gover Kazancioglu and Elda Abrevaya Summary—The clinical chapters: some concluding thoughts—Elda Abrevaya Afterword—Frances Thomson-Salo Index
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