Psychoanalytic Explorations of What Women Want Today

Section I

1. "What do Women Want Today?"

Margarita Cereijido, Ph.D.

2.Authority, Power and Gender in Institutional Life

Virginia Ungar, M.D.

Section II: "Current Theories about the Feminine"

3.Liberating "Female" from "Femininity": Helene Deutsch and the Past to Dianne Elise and the Present

Rosemary H. Balsam, M.D.

4. The Feminine: Plurality of Desires

Leticia Glocer Fiorini, M.D.

5. What Women Want and What Men Want of Women

Arlene Kramer Richards, Ed.D.

Section III: Gender Relations Today

6: Gender Relations Today

Graciela Abelin-Sas Rose, M.D.

7: Women and Psychoanalysis across Generations and Diversities. What do Women want Now: Not Answers but Questions

Adrienne Harris, Ph.D., Kirsten Lentz, Shubha Herlekar, June Lee Kwon, Romy Reading, Julie Leavitt

8: The Persistent Impact of Stereotypes About Women

Cecile R. Bassen, M.D.

9: "What Should a Wife Want?"

Janice S. Lieberman, Ph.D.

Section IV: Psychoanalysis in the Community

10: Opening Space for Women to Dream and Symbolize when Facing Misogyny: the Need for an Active Bystander Witness

Nancy R. Goodman, Ph.D.

11: What Do Women Want? Let Our Voices Be Heard

Adriana Prengler, FIPA

Section V: Contemporary Feminine Scenarios

12: The Maternal-Feminine: Scenarios in Transformation Psychoanalysis and Gender Perspectives Patricia Alkolombre, Ph.D.

13: Self-Agency in the Feminine: What Females Need Today.

Paula L. Ellman, Ph.D.

Concluding remarks: What do women what today?

Margarita Cereijido, Ph.D., Paula L. Ellman, Ph.D., and Nancy R. Goodman, Ph.D.