Female Experience: Three Generations of British Women Psychoanalysts on Work with Women.
Edited by Joan Raphael-Leff & Rosine Jozef Perelberg. 
Published: London, New York: Routledge.
Since Freud, all psychoanalysts have been aware of the constraints of gender which are manifested as transference in the therapeutic process.
In Female Experience, fifteen female psychoanalysts representing three generations and differing theoretical orientations within the British Psychoanalytical Society discuss their experiences in working with women. A wide spectrum of subjects are addresed, ranging from sexual abuse, eating disorders and gender acquisition to childbearing, perinatal loss and postnatal depression and the parent/child relationship.
The analysis of women by women has made a valuable contribution to the development of psychoanalytic theory and practice. The insights afforded by this into the determinants of gender identity will be of interest to practicing psychotherapists both male and female, and to students of gender studies, psychoanalytic studies and women's studies.
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