Woman's Unconscious Use of Her Body

<p>Drawing on Dinora Pines’ lifetime of clinical experience this classic book provides a psychoanalytic understanding of women’s relationships with their bodies focusing on key moments in women’s lives. </p><p>With chapters organised to follow the female life-cycle topics covered include:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>the turbulence of adolescence </li> <li>pregnancy and childbirth </li> <li>infertility and abortion </li> <li>menopause and old age</li> <li>the traumatic effects of surviving the Holocaust. </li> </ul><p>With a foreword from Susie Orbach this book will be of interest to mental health professionals including counsellors psychotherapists and psychoanalysts. </p>