A Woman's Unconscious Use of Her Body

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. With chapters organised to follow the female life-cycle, topics covered include:the turbulence of adolescence pregnancy and childbirth infertility and abortion menopause and old agethe traumatic effects of surviving the Holocaust. With a foreword from Susie Orbach, this book will be of interest to mental health professionals including counsellors, psychotherapists and psychoanalysts.