Elaine V Siegel: 3 books
Transformations
Countertransference During the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Incest, Real and Imagined
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
In recent years, memories and reconstructions of incestuous child abuse have become common features of psychoanalytic treatment. Among some clinicians, such abuse is suspected even when there is little evidence. How does the analyst distinguish between incest real and imagined, and how do recovered...
Middle-Class Waifs
The Psychodynamic Treatment of Affectively Disturbed Children
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
In this volume, a well-known psychoanalyst, dance therapist, and educational consultant chronicles her clinical work with deeply troubled children who fall between the cracks of our diagnostic and educational systems. These children, who frequently turn out to have been sexually or punitively abused,...
Female Homosexuality
Choice Without Volition
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Describing in detail her analytic treatment of eight female homosexuals with common symptoms of incomplete body image and unconscious denial of differences between the sexes, Siegel details the recurring treatment phases that typified their analyses and offers formulations based on both ego-developmental...