Female Body

Ingrid Moeslein-Teising is a psychoanalyst of the German Psychoanalytical Association (DPV/IPA), group analyst (DAGG), a doctor in psychosomatic medicine working in private practice, and a senior consultant in an inpatient psychosomatic clinic (Klinik am Hainberg, Bad Hersfeld). She teaches at the Alexander-Mitscherlich-Institute, Kassel. Her scientific interests, publications and presentations focus on the woman in psychoanalysis - her sexuality, her body, her history. She is a committee member of the IPA Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis (COWAP). Frances Thomson Salo trained with the British Society as a child and adult psychoanalyst, is a Training analyst and past President of the Australian Psychoanalytical Society, Chair of the International Psychoanalytical Association Committee of Women in Psychoanalysis, an editorial board member of the 'International Journal of Psychoanalysis', a consultant infant mental health clinician at the Royal Women's Hospital and child psychotherapist at the Royal Children's Hospital, an Honorary Fellow of the Murdoch Children's Research Institute, an Associate Professor on the faculty of the University of Melbourne Graduate Diploma for Infant and Parent Mental Health, and has published on child and infant-parent psychotherapy.

• Series Editor’s Foreword -- Introduction -- The Female Body in Art -- The female body in Western art: adoration, attraction and horror -- How deep is the skin? Surface and depth in Lucian Freud’s female nudes -- Alberto Giacometti’s Caress/Despite the Hands: Developing and vanished life as a reversible figure—nucleus of an adequate expression of the struggle for the acknowledgment of space and time? -- Pregnancy and Motherhood -- The female cauldron: reproductive body schemata fore-grounded by infertility -- The Medea Fantasy: An evitable burden during prenatal diagnostics? Psychoanalysis, gender and medicine in dialogue -- Inside the mother’s womb: the Mother-Embryo-Dialogue -- The Body as a Scene of Crime -- The female body as cultural playground -- Wetlands (Feuchtgebiete)—or: rage, body and hysteria -- Vicissitudes of female revenge -- Sexuality and the Female Body in the Life Cycle -- Female sexuality beyond gender dichotomy -- Change and renewal in a woman’s life -- Menopause dreams -- Afterword

'The Female Body: Inside and Outside addresses a topic that has fascinated and challenged psychoanalysis since its inception. Here, we find experienced clinicians reflecting on fertility and procreation, on maternal fantasies both generative and destructive, on the female life cycle, and on disturbances and perversions of female body and self. Several chapters focus on portrayals of female bodies in art, literature, and culture. Particularly welcome is the range of contributors from different countries, which shows how much our views of and attention to sexuality and embodiment are shaped by the psychoanalytic and cultural worlds from which we come. This volume shows us how inside and outside are both, in endlessly complex ways, part of female embodiment and its psychic representation.'- Nancy J Chodorow, PhD, training and supervising analyst, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, lecturer on psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Professor emerita of sociology at University of California, Berkeley, and author of several books