Psychoanalytic perspectives on women, menstruation, and secondary amenorrhea / Danielle Redland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Redland, Danielle, 1972- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women and psychoanalysis.

Psychoanalysis and feminism.

Menstruation.

Amenorrhea.

Menstruation--psychology.

Amenorrhea--psychology.

Psychoanalytic Theory.

Women--psychology.

Medical Subjects:

Menstruation--psychology.

Amenorrhea--psychology.

Psychoanalytic Theory.

Women--psychology.

Physical Description:

xiii, 236 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"I can be a mother, a wife, a daughter, a sister and a woman without having periods." This book explores two of the oldest and most important symbols of all time: menstruation and secondary amenorrhea. Women of menstruating age commonly experience secondary amenorrhea - a cessation of periods - but most people have never heard of the term, nor do they realise what it represents. Danielle Redland's curiosity as to why this is posits that menstrual conditions need to be decoded, not just simply treated. Surveying menstruation and SA principally from a psychoanalytic perspective, with sociocultural, historical, political and religious angles also examined, Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Women, Menstruation, and Secondary Amenorrhea draws secondary amenorrhea out of the shadows of its menstruating counterpart, and explores how narratives of womanhood and statehood dominate. Chapters on blood ideology and war amenorrhea, on Freud's treatment of Emma Eckstein and on the psycho-mythology of Pygmalion, present the reader with visions beyond patriarchy towards more thoughtful ideas on the feminine, challenging assumptions about gender, identity and what is deemed 'good' for women. Rich in clinical examples, the book locates menses and their cessation at the heart of personal experience and examines psychosomatic phenomena, the link between psyche and body and the value of interpretation. From the author's own analysis to a variety of cases linked to hysteria, anorexia, stress, trauma, abuse, helplessness and hopelessness, individual stories and narratives are sensitively recovered and carefully revealed. This refreshing example of multi layered research and psychoanalytic enquiry by a new, female writer will be of great interest to psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic psychotherapists, scholars in gender studies and health care/policy, as well as healthcare and social work professionals"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Red lines p. 1

Science and psyche p. 3

Menstrual matrix p. 5

Me, myself and I p. 9

1 Currencies of blood and laws of the land p. 17

Menstrual taboos, rituals and segregation p. 17

Blood lines p. 23

Amenorrhea - a narrative of epic proportions p. 27

Policing, patrolling and politicising menstruanon p. 39

Dirty protests p. 44

2 Nazi blood ideology, the menstruating woman and war amenorrhea p. 50

I p. 50

Different horrors, same hell p. 53

II p. 62

III p. 63

3 A far cry from a no thing: commentaries on secondary amenorrhea p. 69

Trauma and emotionally induced amenorrhea p. 73

Historical treatises on amenorrhea and hysteria linked to trauma p. 75

The talking cure p. 79

Contemporary studies of amenorrhea associated to loss and deprivation p. 82

Pregnancy, pseudocyesis and secondary amenorrhea p. 85

Amenorrhea and psychiatric disturbance p. 87

Hide and seek it p. 89

Castration, conflict and the cloak of amenorrhea p. 91

Anorexia p. 93

Defiance against the feminine p. 95

4 The body boundary, the ego boundary, non-menses and patterns of relating in anorexia and eating disorders p. 104

Menstrual markers p. 104

Rachel p. 106

The referral process p. 108

Amenorrhea - a badge of truism? p. 111

Psychoanalytic explorations into eating disorders p. 112

Amenorrhea as a denial of female sexuality p. 114

Bodies and image p. 118

Menstrual irregularities, disordered eating and autism p. 122

5 Metamorphosis - the story of Pygmalion and the process of change in the psychoanalysis and treatment of secondary amenorrhea p. 128

Why Pygmalion? p. 130

Why myths and storytelling? p. 132

Ovid's Pygmalion and the pleasure principle p. 134

The promiscuity of the Propoetides and the paranoid schizoid position p. 136

Subject and object in the artistry of Pygmalion p. 138

In third space p. 145

True love's something or other- self-efficacy and the unknown p. 147

Incest and exile - the story of Myrrha p. 150

Orpheus and the underworld p. 153

Case study "Mary" - a clinical overview p. 154

Case study "Sylvia" - a clinical overview p. 157

Case study "Kirsty" - a clinical overview p. 159.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Redland, Danielle, 1972- Psychoanalytic perspectives on women, menstruation, and secondary amenorrhea

ISBN:

9780367467005

0367467003

9780367466985

0367466988

OCLC:

1141966549