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Who's That Girl? Who's That Boy?
Clinical Practice Meets Postmodern Gender Theory
- By Lynne Layton.
Published March 2004
Hailed on publication as "an impressive integration of postmodernism and relational psychoanalysis" (James Hansel) and "an intelligent and stimulating account of where the issues of identity, gender, and difference are joined" (Jessica Benjamin), Lynne Layton's Who's That Girl? Who's That Boy? is a…
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Lesbian Identity and Contemporary Psychotherapy
A Framework for Clinical Practice
- By Eda Goldstein, and Lois Horowitz.
Published June 2003
Recent contributions to the psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic literature have moved beyond traditional views of lesbianism, but they have tended to address lesbian identity from one theoretical vantage point or another. Rarely have new ideas been linked to the process issues that arise in actual…
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Autobiographical Memory and the Construction of A Narrative Self
Developmental and Cultural Perspectives
- Edited by Robyn Fivush, and Catherine A. Haden.
Published February 2003
It is a truism in psychology that self and autobiographical memory are linked, yet we still know surprisingly little about the nature of this relation. Scholars from multiple disciplines, including cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, anthropology, and philosophy have begun theorizing…
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The Science/Fiction of Sex
Feminist Deconstruction and the Vocabularies of Heterosex
- By Annie Potts.
Published November 2002
What can we learn from exploring the differences in male and female orgasmic experience? Is the penis an entity with a mind of its own? These issues and others, such as the popular portrayals of male sexuality as active and outwardly focused and female sexuality as passive and internally located,…
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The Psychological Development of Girls and Women
Rethinking Change in Time
- By Sheila Greene.
Published November 2002
In this book, Sheila Greene presents a challenging new perspective on the psychological development of girls and women which emphasises the central role of time in human development. She critically reviews traditional and contemporary theoretical approaches - ranging from orthodox psychoanalysis to…
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Gender, Language and Discourse
- By Ann Weatherall.
Published July 2002
Is language sexist? Do women and men speak different languages?Gender, Language and Discourse uniquely examines the contribution that psychological research - in particular, discursive psychology - has made to answering these questions. Until now, books on gender and language have tended to be…
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Peer Prejudice and Discrimination
The Origins of Prejudice
- By Harold D. Fishbein.
Published June 2002
This award-winning book provides an analysis of the genetic/evolutionary, cultural/historical, and developmental aspects of prejudice and discrimination. It emphasizes how certain genetic/evolutionary mechanisms are utilized to both produce and prevent prejudice and discrimination from occurring or…
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Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man
- By Jack Drescher.
Published October 2001
Do the conventional insights of depth psychology have anything to offer the gay patient? Can contemporary psychoanalytic theory be used to make sense of gay identities in ways that are helpful rather than hurtful, respectful rather than retraumatizing? In Psychoanalytic Therapy and the…
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Social Psychology and Human Sexuality
Key Readings
- Edited by Roy F. Baumeister.
Published March 2001
In spite of its central importance in human relationships, the study of sexuality has been somewhat neglected by social psychologists. This reader brings together a fascinating selection of articles which examine sex as a social phenomenon: as a group of behavior patterns that people engage in…
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