Wild Desires and Mistaken Identities

<p>This groundbreaking book provides a challenging exploration of psychoanalytic ideas about lesbians and lesbianism. Based on the authors' clinical experience as psychoanalytic psychotherapists it offers a new and thoughtful framework that does not inevitably pathologise or universalise all lesbianism. A wide range of psychoanalytic ideas are surveyed from Freud Deutsch and Jung to Lacan and contemporary object-relations theorists. Questions on sexual identity sexual desire and gender identity of transference and countertransference and also of institutional practices in relation to training are all critically - and stimunlatingly - addressed.</p>