Psychoanalytic and Socio-Cultural Perspectives on Women in India

This important book provides a bridge between psychoanalytic perspectives and socio-cultural issues to shine a spotlight on the experiences of women in India today.

Autorentext

Paula L. Ellman, Ph.D., ABPP. is a training and supervising analyst in the Contemporary Freudian Society, Washington DC, and the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis. She is overall chair of the IPA Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis, chair of the IPA Intercommittee on Prejudices and Racism, is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, and is a board member of the North America Psychoanalytic Confederation (NAPsaC).

Jhuma Basak, is a training analyst of the Indian Psychoanalytical Society. She is the representative of the 4th IPA region in the Committee on Women & Psychoanalysis, and member of the IPA Humanitarian Organization Committee.

Dr. Gertraud Schlesinger-Kipp is a psychologist, psychoanalyst and, since 1989, in a private practice in Kassel as a member of the German Psychoanalytical Association (DPV, IPA), full member of the IPA since 1998, training analyst and supervisor, member and consultant of COWAP since 2001, chair of migration and refugees subcommittee.

Inhalt

1. The Paranoid-Schizoid Climate: When Fear and Anxiety Rules 2. "Marked Unsafe": Women, Violence and the State of Risk 3. Revisiting Motherhood: The Concepts of Psychoanalysis and that of Current Era 4. The Role of Religious Icons and Mythological Figures in Traumatized Individuals: A Psychoanalytic Perspective 5. Mourning 6. Peeping In Through The Keyhole 7. An analysis of the film DEVI by Satyajit Ray: The Colonization and Scotomization of a Mind 8. Sorrow, pain, loss, trauma. Psychosocial and psychotherapeutic approach with female refugees 9. Pleasure, Politics & 'Pagalpan'