Womans Unconscious Use of Her Body or Temporal Dimensions of Landscape Ecology

Woman's Unconscious Use of Her Body

Author: Dinora Pines

The mind-body connection in women is complex and intriguing: women can develop rashes, abdominal pains, or asthma at moments of stress; they may become pregnant or miscarry in response to unconscious conflicts; and they are deeply influenced by bodily changes - from menstruation to menopause - throughout their lives. In this perceptive and engrossing book, an eminent psychoanalyst explores key moments of women's lives and sexuality, examining how their unconscious minds are expressed through their bodies and, conversely, how their body experiences impinge upon their minds. Drawing on numerous examples from her clinical practice, Dinora Pines tells vivid stories of how young, pregnant women learn to integrate reality with unconscious fantasies, hopes, and daydreams; how women cope with the psychological antecedents and consequences of miscarriage, abortion, and infertility; and how older women adjust to the end of fertility and to old age, with the attendant issues of loss. Pines concludes by discussing her work with Holocaust survivors and children of survivors who unconsciously somatize their emotional distress about the horrors of the war and postwar years. Throughout she enables us to see how the analytic encounter can reveal and relate the secrets of the mind and body and provide a space for thought and change.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
	Skin Communication: Early Skin Disorders and Their Effect on Transference and Countertransference	8
	The Psychoanalytic Dialogue: Transference and Countertransference	26
	Adolescent Promiscuity: A Clinical Presentation	42
	Pregnancy and Motherhood: Interaction between Fantasy and Reality	59
	Adolescent Pregnancy and Motherhood	78
	The Relevance of Early Psychic Development to Pregnancy and Abortion	97
	Pregnancy, Miscarriage and Abortion	116
	Emotional Aspects of Infertility and Its Remedies	134
	The Menopause	151
	Old Age	167
	Working with Women Survivors of the Holocaust: Affective Experiences in Transference and Countertransference	178
	The Impact of the Holocaust on the Second Generation	205
	Bibliography	226
	Glossary	232
	Index	235

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Temporal Dimensions of Landscape Ecology: Wildlife Responses to Variable Resources

Author: John A Bissonett

Over the past twenty-five years, the effects of the spatial distribution and scaling of resources on animal populations have been increasingly studied in wildlife biology, landscape ecology, conservation biology, and related fields. However, spatial patterns change over time. In Temporal Dimensions of Landscape Ecology: Wildlife Responses to Variable Resources, the authors discuss the effects that temporal changes in resources have on animal populations. Resource availability and quality are not distributed homogeneously over time, depending for example on predictable changes in seasons, mating and birthing cycles, unpredictable resource pulses and weather-related phenomena, ecological disturbances, and historical legacies.

Temporal Dimensions of Landscape Ecology brings together chapters that address the idea of current as well as historical temporal influences on resource availability, quality, and distribution. The authors draw attention to the neglected temporal issues so important to understanding species and community responses. This book will be of interest to both wildlife and conservation students and practitioners working with temporal and spatial scale issues.