The Woman Patient

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Aspects of Aggression and Violence

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Social Change and Psychotherapeutic Implications

      • Carol C. Nadelson, Malkah T. Notman

      Pages 3-16

   3. Aggression in Women: Conceptual Issues and Clinical Implications

      • Carol C. Nadelson, Malkah T. Notman, Jean Baker Miller, Joan Zilbach

      Pages 17-28

   4. Women and Violence

      • E. P. Benedek, G. A. Farley

      Pages 29-46

   5. Wife Abuse: Culture as Destiny

      • Elaine Hilberman Carmen

      Pages 47-64

   6. Incest

      • Veronica Tisza

      Pages 65-82

   7. The Adolescent Girl in a Group Home

      • Mirjam Mathe, Nancy Rudes

      Pages 83-94

   8. Juvenile Delinquency in Girls

      • Susan M. Fisher, Irving Hurwitz

      Pages 95-114

   9. Childhood and Adolescent Suicidal Behavior with an Emphasis on Girls

      • Cynthia R. Pfeffer

      Pages 115-130

3. Symptom Formation and Illustrative Symptoms

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131

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   2. The Organic-Functional Controversy

      • Theodore Nadelson

      Pages 133-146

   3. The Painful Woman: Complaints, Symptoms, and Illness

      • Don R. Lipsitt

      Pages 147-171

   4. Emotional Reactions to the Miscarriage of a Consciously Desired Pregnancy

      • Rochelle Friedman, Karen A. Cohen

      Pages 173-187

   5. Depression in Women: Epidemiology, Explanations, and Impact on the Family

      • Myrna M. Weissman, Gerald L. Klerman

      Pages 189-200

   6. The Myofascial Pain Dysfunction Syndrome: An Unheeded Neuromuscular Disorder

      • Berit Helöe, Astrid Nøklebye Heiberg

      Pages 201-216

   7. Women and Alcohol Abuse

      • Barbara S. McCrady

      Pages 217-244

4. Therapy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 245-245

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   2. The Therapeutic Alliance in Psychoanalytic Treatment

      • Earle Silber

      Pages 247-262

   3. Research on Gender and Psychotherapy

      • Lewis A. Kirshner, Stuart T. Hauser, Abraham Genack

      Pages 263-272

This volume continues some of the issues raised in Volume 2 and fo­ cuses more closely on therapeutic intervention. The theoretical discus­ sion of aggression provides a background for the presentation of pat­ terns of aggression and violence affecting women, as well as possible connections between physical and emotional symptoms and indirect expressions of aggression. The section on aggression against and by women is an extension of some of the content of The Woman Patient, Volume 1 (e. g. , the chapter on rape). Theoretical and clinical views that are not often linked in this fashion are included here because we are interested in understanding the development of a self-concept that incorporates the constructive aspects of "aggression" as well as an un­ derstanding of violence. In this context, loss, abandonment, delin­ quency, and child and adolescent suicide are also extensions of these issues. The chapters that follow address aspects of symptom formation and concepts of illness. There is, as yet, no definitive explanation for why women experience certain illness patterns more or less than men. Current considerations have been reviewed, but these do not answer. They are a beginning on which we must build. It is apparent that any discussion of these subjects better elucidates the complexity if it in­ cludes an intermingling of general problems with concrete symptoms. Those specific problems that are usually thought of as psychological such as depression, and behaviors (such as substance abuse) provide a focus for understanding wider issues.

• aggression
• depression
• emotion
• intervention
• suicide
• women

• Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, USA

  Malkah T. Notman, Carol C. Nadelson

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