Critical Psychophysical Passages in the Life of a Woman

I • Early Developmental Themes: The Emotional Birth of the Female.- 1 • Psychohistorical Reflections on Changing Body Images for Women.- 2 • Early Female Development: From Birth through Latency.- 3 • Reflections on the Daughter as a Projective Screen: Mother—Daughter Boundaries.- 4 • The Father’s Role in the Self-Development of His Daughter.- II • Female Passages of the Body-Self.- 5 • Menarche and Menstruation: Psychoanalytic Implications.- 6 • Motivations for Motherhood and the Nature of the Self—Object Tie.- 7 • Psychoanalytic Aspects of Pregnancy.- III • From Body-Self to Other.- 8 • Psychology of Childbirth.- 9 • The Postpartum Period: Analytic Reflections on the Potential for Agony and Ecstasy.- 10 • The Nursing Experience: A Clinical Study.- 11 • Emotional Aspects of Pregnancy and Childbirth.- IV • Later Developmental Themes.- 12 • A Study of Menopausal Women in Analytic Treatment.- 13 • Menopause: Myth and Reality.- V • Twentieth Century Female Issues and Problems.- 14 • Body Image in the 21st Century.- 15 • Psychodynamics of Abortion: Regression or Rebirth?.- 16 • Women and Eating Disorders.- 17 • Psychological Consequences of Infertility.- Overview: Biotechnology and the 21st Century.