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Couching Resistance : Women, Film, and Psychoanalytic Psychiatry.
Title:
Couching Resistance : Women, Film, and Psychoanalytic Psychiatry.
Author:
Walker, Janet.
ISBN:
9780816684977
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (239 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Women and Psychiatry: Reading the Cultural Texts -- 1 Psychiatry after World War II: The Stake in Women -- 2 Women and Psychiatric Technique -- 3 Marriage and Psychiatry -- or, Transference-Countertransference as a Love Affair -- 4 The Institutional Edifice -- 5 Psychiatry and the Working Woman -- 6 Psychiatrists and Cinema: A Correspondence -- Conclusion: Feminine Sexuality and the Fallible Freud -- Notes -- Filmography A -- Selected Filmography B -- Selected Filmography C -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
Explores how American psychoanalytic psychiatry and Hollywood cinema between World War II and the mid-1960s negotiated women's psychosexuality and life experience.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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