Storms in Her Head

by Muriel Dimen

Overview

A century after it was written, Breuer and Freudís Studies on Hysteria continues to challenge. In Storms in Her Head, many of todayís most renowned psychoanalysts and cultural theorists revisit the cases it contains, reflecting on how six suffering women continue to engage us with problems of theory and practice. Each author offers a major contribution to current psychoanalytic thinking about culture and its influence on the mind, the body and clinical process. Storms in Her Head offers an eclectic and lively set of opinions on Freud, his hysterical patients, and the psychoanalytic journey they began together.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781635421484
Publisher:	Other Press, LLC
Publication date:	04/28/2021
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	300
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Muriel Dimen, Ph.D., wrote Surviving Sexual Contradictions and The Anthropological Imagination and, with Adrienne Harris, edited Storms in Her Head (Other Press, 2001). She has a private psychoanalytic practice in New York.

Table of Contents

	Preface	ix
	Acknowledgments	xxi
	Introduction	1
1.	The Primal Leap of Psychoanalysis, from Body to Speech: Freud, Feminism, and the Vicissitudes of the Transference	31
2.	The Psychotherapy of Hysteria, 1995	65
3.	Pregnancy, Death, and Loss in Anna O.'s Hysteria	91
4.	A Psychology of Unconscious Experience without Interpretive Metapsychology	107
5.	Hysteria, Dissociation, and Cure: Emmy von N. Revisited	121
6.	The Case History in Historical Perspective: Nanette Leroux and Emmy von N.	143
7.	Falling into History: Freud's Case of Frau Emmy von N.	167
8.	Eroticism and Representation: The Epistemology of Sex in Light of the Case of Frau Emmy von N.	185
9.	Psychoanalysis and the Degradation of Romance	201
10.	From Hypnotic Suggestion to Free Association: Freud as a Psychotherapist, circa 1892-1893	223
11.	Back to the Future in Psychoanalysis: Trauma, Dissociation, and the Nature of Unconscious Processes	243
12.	On Trauma: A Freudian Perspective	265
13.	The Physicality of the Gaze	281
14.	Beyond the Feminine Ideal: The Body Speaks	303
15.	Conversations with Elisabeth von R.	323
16.	The Leap from the Studies on Hysteria to The Interpretation of Dreams	341
	Contributors	359
	Index	363

Editorial Reviews

Freud and Josef Breuer's are the subject of this group of articles, most of which reconsider the original cases in light of later evidence and current theoretical approaches. The contributors are psychologists (most of them, including the editors, are with New York University's Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis), a historian, and a professor of humanities. Other paper topics include: current treatments for hysteria, a psychology of unconscious experience without interpretive metapsychology, feminist approaches to Freud, and the leap from to . Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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