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Psychological Medicine Feb 1981Comprehensive psychosexual histories were elicited from 31 female patients with anorexia nervosa. The subjects showed a wide spectrum of sexual knowledge, attitudes and...
Comprehensive psychosexual histories were elicited from 31 female patients with anorexia nervosa. The subjects showed a wide spectrum of sexual knowledge, attitudes and behaviour. Some appeared to be markedly inhibited, while others were experienced and assertive in regard to sexual matters. Age at interview appeared to be the major factor determining whether individual patients were sexually experienced or not. A majority of patients felt that a sexual challenge had precipitated their illness, and most reported a decrease in sexual interest and enjoyment following weight loss, particularly when this was severe. The effect of the illness on actual sexual behaviour, however, was variable, some patients decreasing and others increasing their sexual activity.
Topics: Adolescent; Adult; Anorexia Nervosa; Female; Gender Identity; Humans; Identification, Psychological; Menstruation Disturbances; Psychosexual Development; Sexual Behavior; Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological
PubMed: 7208736
DOI: 10.1017/s0033291700053344 -
Psychoanalytic Review 1982The theory of narcissism and the study of the psychological development of the female child have both been subjects of considerable controversy within psychoanalysis....
The theory of narcissism and the study of the psychological development of the female child have both been subjects of considerable controversy within psychoanalysis. Some issues central to these controversies have been discussed and evaluated with attention to the contributions made by advances in each area upon the other. From a historical perspective, Freud's illuminating introduction of the concept of narcissism opened the door toward explaining a variety of puzzling clinical phenomena. Deutsch then elaborated upon Freud's contribution as well as upon his specific bias in her description of the psychology of women. Later, Jacobson addressed herself to a reformulation of then existing views of female psychological development. Kohut's innovative clinical observations and Stolorow's functional definition of narcissism provided a unique vantage point from which to offer a critical restatement of narcissistic factors in the development of the female child. Specifically, narcissism was freed from its singular relationship to female development (the emphasis on castration shock and penis envy as rock bottom factors in female character formation) and related to structuralization of the representational world--self- and object-representations. Sexual differences can then be understood as most relevant for the content of these structures. In this context, the work of Stoller was cited. Finally, three topics that grew out of these considerations and elaborations were considered: the role of the little girl's attachment to and separation from her mother, the role of the psychosexual phases and an evaluation of penis envy, and the role of the father as an ideal. The reciprocal relationship between psychosexual development and the differentiation, integration and consolidation of self and object images has specific relevance for the manner in which femininity as the content of the self-representation of the developing girl enhances and is enhanced by the structuralization of the representations. The unfolding of the psychosexual phases with their associated imagery can be viewed as the gradual unfolding of more complex, differentiated and articulated self and object representations. Conversely, the gradual separation, integration and consolidation of self- and object-representations makes possible the development of increasingly more advanced forms of psychosexual experiences. Thus, the original question of the relationship between narcissism and female development has led to much broader issues. Narcissism concerns the structuralization and maintenance of the self. However, while narcissistic activities may promote structuralization, they may also serve to shore up a precarious sense of gender identity.
Topics: Adolescent; Adult; Child; Female; Freudian Theory; Gender Identity; Humans; Identification, Psychological; Mother-Child Relations; Narcissism; Oedipus Complex; Psychosexual Development; Women
PubMed: 6806841
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New Directions For Child Development 1987
Review
Topics: Child; Female; Gender Identity; Humans; Identification, Psychological; Individuality; Male; Psychosexual Development; Stereotyping
PubMed: 3331419
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Bulletin of the Philadelphia... Jun 1963
Topics: Folklore; Psychoanalytic Interpretation; Psychosexual Development; Sex; Snow
PubMed: 13962339
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Archives of Sexual Behavior Dec 2000Developmental processes of "puberty" and their cultural contexts in understanding the emergence of sexual subjectivity, especially sexual attraction, prior to gonadarche...
Developmental processes of "puberty" and their cultural contexts in understanding the emergence of sexual subjectivity, especially sexual attraction, prior to gonadarche are critically examined. In particular, we consider the hypothesis that "sexual attraction" follows the onset of adrenal puberty, termed adrenarche, precipitating the development of stable and memorable attraction toward others approximately by the age of 10. In a prior study, the authors suggested that adrenarche is a significant source of this developmental change in sexuality (McClintock, M., and Herdt, G., 1996). The inferential evidence from New Guinea is compared with recent studies from the United States, including clinical findings on "precocious puberty." We conclude with the question of whether the age of 10 is a human universal in the development of attraction and sexuality.
Topics: Child; Culture; Female; Gonads; Humans; Male; Psychosexual Development; Puberty; Sexual Behavior
PubMed: 11100264
DOI: 10.1023/a:1002006521067 -
Nursing Mirror and Midwives Journal Feb 1976
Topics: Female; Gender Identity; Guilt; Homosexuality; Humans; Male; Paraphilic Disorders; Psychosexual Development; Self Concept
PubMed: 1045351
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The Journal of Sexual Medicine Mar 2008
Review
Topics: Brain; Brain Chemistry; Emotions; Female; Humans; Male; Norepinephrine; Psychosexual Development; Serotonin; Sex Characteristics; Sexuality
PubMed: 18179456
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Advances in Psychosomatic Medicine 1985
Topics: Adolescent; Body Image; Child; Child, Preschool; Female; Freudian Theory; Gender Identity; Humans; Identification, Psychological; Infant; Mother-Child Relations; Psychoanalytic Theory; Psychosexual Development; Sexual Behavior; Transsexualism
PubMed: 4013881
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International Journal of Psychoanalytic... 1975The development constructs of Mahler and her coworkers are seen as clinically based theory which enrich practice. Freud discovered the importance of the infantile past...
The development constructs of Mahler and her coworkers are seen as clinically based theory which enrich practice. Freud discovered the importance of the infantile past and psychosexual development in particular, he related these findings to the psychodynamics of neurotic structures, and devised a successful therapeutic model based on his findings. Mahler has uncovered and detailed other aspects of infantile mental life, related genetically not to neurotic byt also to other mental structures, thereby broadening the range of applicability of Freud's therapeutic model. Clinical vignettes are offered depicting unresolved residua from the infantile developmental phases described by Mahler. The issue of the analyst's and the patient's conviction concerning reconstructions that attempt to reach across the "primal repression barrier" is discussed. Finally, it is suggested that working through involves, among other things, completion of developmental process that had been interrupted in the childhood of the patient.
Topics: Anxiety, Castration; Child Development; Female; Humans; Individuation; Libido; Male; Mother-Child Relations; Oral Stage; Personality Development; Phobic Disorders; Psychoanalytic Interpretation; Psychoanalytic Theory; Psychoanalytic Therapy; Psychosexual Development; Regression, Psychology; Transference, Psychology
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Journal of the American Psychoanalytic... 1979
Topics: Adolescent; Child; Child, Preschool; Depression; Father-Child Relations; Fathers; Female; Humans; Male; Maternal Deprivation; Mother-Child Relations; Psychosexual Development; Transsexualism
PubMed: 521600
DOI: 10.1177/000306517902700405