Psychoanalytic Explorations of What Women Want Today

Margarita Cereijido, Ph.D., is a Training and Supervising Analyst and Faculty Member of the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis. She has written and taught on the areas of gender, culture, and prejudice. She organizes the Culture and Psychoanalysis annual conference at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis and is a member of the Committee of Women and Psychoanalysis (COWAP) at the International Psychoanalytic Association. Paula L. Ellman, Ph.D., ABPP., is a training and supervising analyst in the Contemporary Freudian Society, Washington DC, and the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis. She is Overall Chair of the IPA Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis and Chair of the IPA Inter-committee Work Group on Prejudice and Race. She is on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and is a Board Member of the North America Psychoanalytic Confederation (NAPsaC). Nancy R. Goodman, Ph.D., is a training and supervising analyst with the CFS and the IPA and a faculty member for the Wuhan Training Program, China. She writes about trauma, symbolizing processes, female development, and unconscious fantasy. She is a member of the Asia-Pacific Planning Committee of the International Psychoanalytic Association and Founder and Director of the online Virtual Psychoanalytic Museum with IP Books, and she maintains a psychoanalytic practice in Bethesda, Maryland.

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.