Women and Psychoanalysis: The Collected Papers of Lucy Holmes

This remarkable collection charts the professional growth of one psychoanalyst from student to seasoned clinician to provide a guidebook for how psychoanalytic theory is conceptualized, created and tested in the analytic session. Specifically, the book traces the development of thinking on the place of women in psychoanalysis and how psychoanalysis has changed how it views and treats women.

Using the techniques of qualitative psychoanalytic research, Lucy Holmes presents new theories of fem...