APPRECIATING DIFFERENCE: ROY SCHAFER ON PSYCHOANALYSIS AND WOMEN |
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| Authors: | ROSEMARY H. BALSAM |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Yale Medical School;2. Staff Psychiatrist, Yale Student Mental Health and Counseling Service;3. and a Training and Supervising Analyst at Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis. |
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| Abstract: | The author describes and appreciates Roy Schafer's critique of Freud's view of female psychology and his other contributions to the psychoanalytic literature on women, noting his then‐novel emphasis that took into account social and cultural factors in analytic treatment. She relates the influence on Schafer's work of his ambiance in that era: the Yale University Student Health Services during the social turmoil of the 1970s (where she was his supervisee), with the university becoming coed, as well as the theoretical plurality even in the early days of the Western New England Psychoanalytic Institute. |
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| Keywords: | Roy Schafer female psychology feminism postmodernism social and cultural factors phallocentrism gender roles female development New Haven Western New England Psychoanalytic Institute Yale University |
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