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- Title
Psychoanalytic contributions to the study of gender issues.
- Authors
Barbieri, Norma B.; Barbieri, N B
- Abstract
<bold>Objective: </bold>To explore the issue of gender development and its applications and implications with respect to dynamic psychiatry.<bold>Method: </bold>Gender study is approached in this paper as a continually evolving process of thinking about male and female attributes, similarities, and differences. The paper reviews a specific thematic area of the extensive literature on the subject.<bold>Results: </bold>Gendered psychosexual development and identity construction are intertwined and determined by multibiopsychosocial factors. Freud's theory on femininity is briefly reviewed from the perspective of new theoretical developments.<bold>Conclusions: </bold>The paper highlights the fact that gender is becoming a useful conceptual tool in clinical practice, teaching, and neurosciences.
- Subjects
GENDER identity; PSYCHIATRY; HISTORY of feminism; PSYCHIATRIC epidemiology; HISTORY of psychoanalysis; HISTORY; HUMAN reproduction; PSYCHOLOGY of men; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SEX distribution; PSYCHOLOGY of women
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1999, Vol 44, Issue 1, p72
- ISSN
0706-7437
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1177/070674379904400109