Standing at the threshold: A psychoanalytic response to Carol Gilligan.

Comments on C. Gilligan's (e.g., 1992) studies of female adolescence, including her report that girls lose their sense of relationship awareness and conviction as they enter adolescence. The need to expand the psychoanalytic perspective on adolescence and address its underemphasis in psychoanalytic and feminist psychoanalytic literature is discussed. Topics discussed include the importance of peer relationships in female adolescence and the impact of menstruation on self-experience and the quality of the maternal relationship. Implications for the psychotherapeutic relationship are also examined. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Psychosomatics and psychoanalytic theory: The psychology of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease.

Psychoanalytic psychosomatic theory is reviewed here with particular reference to inflammatory bowel disease, that is, ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. The importance of recognizing empirical research findings in conjunction with clinical inference is stressed, as well as the usefulness of exploring the full relationship context of illness. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Personal authorship: Pleasures and pitfalls of psychoanalytic writing.

The process of writing for the psychoanalytic literature mirrors aspects of the psychoanalytic experience itself. A particularly relevant dimension of writing is the experience of time, which is suspended during active, focused production. In fact, the process of writing provides an opportunity for self-expansion and self-discovery, in addition to self-expression. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Sex role identification and the clinical psychology student.

22 female (mean age 31.8 yrs) and 16 male (mean age 27.5 yrs) practicum students in clinical psychology completed the Bem Sex-Role Inventory and a questionnaire assessing their attitudes toward clinical work. Females were more likely than males to work predominantly with children. Masculine and undifferentiated Ss attributed the source of their theoretical orientation to their clinical work, whereas feminine and androgynous Ss considered their own personal treatment as important a source of influence as clinical work. Masculine Ss viewed hearing about important changes in patients' lives as more gratifying than direct observation of change, while other Ss viewed the direct observation of change as most gratifying. (20 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)