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1 online resource (xi, 171 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Prologue: the dig; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Beginnings; Description of the book; References; PART I: One mechanism that explains our violent world; 1. A mechanism that harms: projective identification as a force that destroys; Early developments; formation of the idea; Expansion of the concept; others add to the definition; Working with a powerful unconscious force: illustrations of despair and the emergence of hope; Another example of projective identification; References |
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2. Clara Thompson's disappearance: how projective identification contributed to the near-extinction of a starThe story begins; Who was Clara Thompson?; Ferenczi and Budapest; Clara Thompson's contributions, leadership, and her critics; Major obstacles that led to her veil of invisibility; Ferenczi's involvement with amother and daughter; Why the suppression of Thompson?; Notes; References; PART II: Those who have been damaged: projective identification as a major cause of the erasure; 3. Eleanor Marx: a little-known activist; Early years; Growing activism; "The woman question." |
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Does projective identification fit the Eleanor Marx story?References; 4. A 21st century woman: Anne Case; Women economists and the academy; Case and Deaton, women, and the Nobel Prize; Anne Case and her generation of women; References; 5. Hillary Clinton and the 2016 presidential election; Interview with apersonal friend of Hillary Clinton's; Whose fault?; Feminism and me; Donald Trump emerges; Clinton's defeat: apsychoanalytic perspective; Women fight back; Notes; References; PART III: Groups of women who have been damaged: the effects of projective identification in groups |
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6. The dial painters and their fate: illness and death for manyThe women fight back; Victimized while female; They died awful deaths; Public outcomes; The old, old story; Amysterious death in the family; References; 7. The WASP of World War II: does the stigma linger?; Success ... and consequences; Part of the dismissal process: the negative media campaign; Last resting places; How much have things changed?; References; 8. The challenge: healing groups and cultures; An example of projective identification in groups: when mentalization failed at the Northbrook Academy; References |
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9. The atrocities of physical abuse: genocide and rape in Rwanda and sex-trafficked girlsThe genocide and rape in Rwanda; Origins and history; All too visible; Women in war; Sex-trafficked girls/women; One brave young woman's story; Emotional suffering; References; PART IV: Mechanisms that reverse the damage: mentalization and reparative leadership as antidotes to projective identification; 10. Attachment, attachment trauma, and mentalization: key components that affect the development of the self and the formation of group identity; Attachment; Attachment trauma |
| Summary |
Misogyny, Projective Identification, and Mentalization looks at how the psychoanalytic concepts of projective identification and mentalization may explain the construction of society and how they have enabled misogyny to be expressed in social, political, and institutional settings. Karyne E. Messina explores how misogyny has affected the perception and treatment of women through analysis of a range of examples of individual women and groups. The first part explores projective identification as a mechanism for the suppression of women, looking at the origins of the concept in psychoanalysis and its expansion. The author examines the story of Clara Thompson as an example, arguing that her virtual disappearance from the history of psychiatry and psychoanalysis itself is a telling example of this process at work. The second part of the book uses four examples of individuals, including the recent election loss by Hillary Clinton in 2016, to show that projective identification can (particularly in political and cultural settings) overtake and motivate groups as well as individuals, and lead to violence, atrocity, humiliation, and dismissal of and against women. Part three then features case studies of four groups of women from the 20th century, including victims of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, showing how projective identification against groups has occurred. With specific referenceto the erasure of women's contributions in society, both individually and collectively, and the trauma that arises from the many effects of regarding women as a group as "less" or "other", this is a book which sets a new agenda for understanding how misogyny is expressed socially. Misogyny, Projective Identification, and Mentalization will be of interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists as well as scholars of politics, gender, and cultural studies |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Karyne E. Messina, Ed. D., FABP, is a psychologist and supervising analyst at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis and is on the medical staff of Johns Hopkins Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland, USA. She maintains a full-time private practice in Chevy Chase, Maryland. She was previously the Director of the Meyer Treatment Center at the Washington School of Psychiatry and the Director of Continuing Education for Women at George Washington University |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 17, 2019) |
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Projective identification.
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Misogyny.
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Metacognition.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
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MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Diseases.
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MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Movements -- Psychoanalysis.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Health.
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Metacognition.
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Misogyny.
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Projective identification.
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2018058825 |
| ISBN |
9780429578793 |
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0429578792 |
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9780429574573 |
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0429574576 |
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9780429576683 |
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0429576684 |
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9780367192235 |
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0367192233 |
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