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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807761403321

Autore

Walker Janet <1955->

Titolo

Couching resistance : women, film, and psychoanalytic psychiatry / / Janet Walker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1993

ISBN

0-8166-8497-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 p.)

Disciplina

791.43/656

Soggetti

Women and psychoanalysis

Women in motion pictures

Psychiatry in motion pictures

Motion pictures - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes filmographies.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

Explores how American psychoanalytic psychiatry and Hollywood cinema between World War II and the mid-1960s negotiated women's psychosexuality and life experience.