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"The Psychodynamics of Gender and Gender Role reviews cutting-edge empirical research on psychoanalytic theories of child development, defense and coping, unconscious mental processing, normal personality functioning, and psychopathology. Its elegant, integrative essays not only summarize a tremendous amount of research on this topic but also set the stage for a reinvigorated psychoanalytic understanding of gender and gender roles.
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This is the seventh book by Bornstein and Masling aimed at putting psychoanlysis on an empirical basis. They argue that in order to survive, psychoanlysis must be based on something more than the endorsements of its practitioners, who, they state, have been unduly influenced by unconscious bias and conscious distortion. Despite objections from many psychoanlysts to controlled empirical study, the number of such studies has gradually increased over the past 20 years. This collection of heavily referenced essays provides a critical summary of findings about the psychodynamics of gender and gender role in seven different areas: helplessness, thinking and creativity, defense mechanisms, emotions and defenses, bulimia, relationships with mother, and morality. In general the contributors are careful not to draw too strict a line between genders, since there is often overlap. They emphasize the validity of many Freudian generalizations, although they are all willing to modify them in light of current research. The editors provide two indexes, one of all the authors cited and the other of subjects (the latter is particularly valuable, since it enables the reader to see how the same topic might be treated in a different categorical context). Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. V. L. Bullough University of Southern California
Table of Contents
| Contributors | p. ix |
| Introduction: the Psychodynamics of Gender and Gender Role | p. xiii |
| 1. Development of Individual Differences in Helplessness: Relations to Gender and Psychodynamic Theory | p. 3 |
| Individual Differences in Motivation: The Helpless and Mastery-Oriented Patterns | p. 7 |
| Gender Differences in Helplessness | p. 9 |
| Psychodynamic Theory and Helplessness | p. 10 |
| Development of Individual Differences in Achievement Motivation: Social-Cognitive Research | p. 15 |
| Socialization of Individual Differences in Achievement Motivation | p. 21 |
| Gender and the Development of Helplessness | p. 28 |
| Proposed Model for the Development of Helplessness | p. 32 |
| Psychodynamic Theory and Individual Differences in Motivation | p. 35 |
| Conclusions | p. 41 |
| 2. Gender Differences in Primary Process Thinking and Creativity | p. 53 |
| Primary Process Thinking | p. 53 |
| Primary Process Thinking and Creativity | p. 55 |
| Gender Differences in Empirical Studies | p. 62 |
| Primary Process in Play Narratives | p. 67 |
| Explanations of Gender Differences | p. 73 |
| 3. The Study of Defense Mechanisms: Gender Implications | p. 81 |
| Developing a Method to Study Defenses in Children | p. 84 |
| Why Does Defense Use Change With Development? | p. 93 |
| How Does One Know One Is Assessing Defenses? | p. 96 |
| Immature Defense Use by Adults: Regression or Fixation? | p. 105 |
| Gender Differences and Defenses | p. 107 |
| Synthesis: Gender Differences in Implications of Defense Use | p. 118 |
| Conclusion | p. 121 |
| 4. Exploring the Inner World of Severely Disturbed Bulimic Women: Empirical Investigations of Psychoanalytic Theory of Female Development | p. 129 |
| Historical Context | p. 130 |
| Psychoanalytic Theory and Empirical Evidence | p. 132 |
| A Study of Severely Disturbed Bulimic Women | p. 141 |
| Discussion | p. 152 |
| 5. Unconscious Response to "Mommy and I are One": Does Gender Matter? | p. 165 |
| MIO Effects Vary in a Predictable Way | p. 168 |
| Should Researchers Care About Gender When Studying MIO? | p. 170 |
| Previous Studies | p. 173 |
| New Experiments | p. 178 |
| Conclusion | p. 192 |
| 6. Emotions, Defenses, and Gender | p. 203 |
| Gender and Development | p. 204 |
| Communion, Agency, and Emotional Expression | p. 207 |
| Context Specificity of Gender Differences in Emotion | p. 208 |
| Defense Mechanisms, Agency, and Communion | p. 209 |
| Defense Mechanisms and Emotions | p. 211 |
| Description of the Study | p. 218 |
| 7. Gender Differences in Morality | p. 251 |
| Empirical Findings on Gender Differences in Superego Strength: The Case of Shame and Guilt | p. 253 |
| Women Are Not Less Moral Than Men: Further Empirical Results From the Study of Empathy | p. 258 |
| The Bottom Line: Gender Differences in Moral Behavior | p. 260 |
| Gender Differences in the Character of the Superego: An Ethic of Care Versus an Ethic of Justice? | p. 262 |
| Summary and Conclusion | p. 265 |
| Author Index | p. 271 |
| Subject Index | p. 281 |
| About the Editors | p. 297 |
