The Meanings of Menopause: Historical, Medical, and Cultural PerspectivesRuth Formanek Routledge, 13 พ.ค. 2013 - 320 หน้า In this scholarly compilation of a major event in the life of every woman, editor Ruth Formanek has adopted an avowedly multidisciplinary mandate: to illuminate menopause as both an event and a stage of life by gathering together a variety of discipline-specific meanings and research perspectives. The result is an admirably comprehensive study that not only charts the premodern meanings of menopause, but proceeds to examine menopause from current biomedical, endocrinological, culutral, and psychological perspectives. Ample attention is give to the psychosocial influences on menopause and to cross-cultural variations in the experience of, and life adjustments that follow, menopause. Societal and familial attitudes toward menopausal women are also explored through an examination of women in classical and modern literature. Clinical contributions review psychoanalytic perspectives on menopause, elucidate the individual meanings of the menopausal experience uncovered in therapy, and consider male views of menopausal women. Collectively, the contributors to this volume remedy the scant attention menopause has heretofore received in the psychological and psychotherapeutic literature. They not only explore the range of issues associated with menopause, but address these issues in the context of the various myths and superstitions about menopause that have endured over the centuries. Essential reading for students of human development, gender issues, and women's studies, The Meanings of Menopause is, for helping professionals, an invaluable source book on a life event fraught with psychological significance. |
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... suggests that the traditional model , as exemplified by Helene Deutsch's account , has lost its validity with the lack of empirical confirmation of Freudian psycho- sexual stages on which it was based . Benedek's attempted integration ...
... suggests that more recent and nontraditional analytic theo- rists have used self - esteem in their formulations . She considers it essential to take into account how the individual woman responds to menopause , differences that may well ...
... suggests that we reconsider ( 1 ) those attributes thought to be characteristically feminine and ( 2 ) those experiences of mind and body that belong to women . Women's experiences must not continue to be thought of in terms of men's ...
... suggest the influence of old fears of the suppression of menstruation ( amenorrhea ) , especially that the blood not discharged might wreak havoc in the brain . In the 19th century , obsolete views of amenorrhea were elaborated and ...
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II Psychosocial CrossCultural and Research Perspectives | 78 |
III Endocrinology Clinical and Experiential Studies and Literary Aspects | 176 |
Author Index | 297 |
Subject Index | 311 |
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The Meanings of Menopause: Historical, Medical, and Cultural Perspectives Ruth Formanek ชมบางส่วนของหนังสือ - 2013 |