The Psychology of Today’s Woman

Toni Bernay, Ph.D., is in private practice in Beverly Hills, California, and is Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry (Psychology) at the Neuropsychiatric Institute, University of California, Los Angeles.

The sexual revolution has brought in its wake a wealth of questions that are only beginning to be addressed. How are women coping, both socially and psychologically, with "real world" challenges? Is their ostensible "liberation" actually making for a sen

Foreword, Horner Introduction, Bernay, Cantor I. Traditional Visions of Femininity Reassessed 1. Is Freud an Enemy of Women's Liberation? Some Historical Considerations, Lewis 2. Early Pathways to Female Sexuality in Advantaged and Disadvantaged Girls, Galeson II. New Visions of Femininity 3. Reconciling Nurturance and Aggression: A New Feminine Identity, Bernay 4. The Self-in-Relation: Empathy and the Mother-Daughter Relationship, Jordan, Surrey 5. Antigone: Symbol of Autonomy and Women's Moral Dilemmas, Shainess 6. Working Mothers: Impact on the Self, the Couple, and the Children, Person 7. Anger in the Mother-Daugher Relationship, Herman, Lewis III. Today's Woman 8. Reproductive Motivations and Contemporary Feminine Development, Williams 9. Marriage and Divorce: The Search for Adult Identity, Cantor 10. Women and Work, Applegarth 11. Empty-Nest Syndrome: Possibility or Despair, Tallmer 12. The Aging Woman: Confrontations with Hopelessness, Semel IV. Issues in the Therapeutic Relationship 13. Women Feminist Patients and a Feminist Woman Analyst, Eisenbud 14. When Men Are Therapists to Women: Beyond the Oedipal Pale, Moldawsky 15. Childless Women Approaching Midlife: Issues in Psychoanalytic Treatment, Ziman-Tobin 16. Women's Dreams: A Nocturnal Odyssey, Natterson 17. Creative and Reparative Uses of Countertransference by Women Psychotherapists Treating Women Patients: A Clinical Research Study, Ruderman