PEP | Article - Clinical: Michael Bálint. 'A Contribution to the Psychology of Menstruation.' Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 1937, Vol. VI, pp. 346–352.

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Abstract

Menstruation may be interpreted as a conversion symptom uniting in itself opposing wishes and instinctual impulses, which may be described as genital-sexual excitation and defence against it. Material from case histories illustrates the interplay of these ambivalent impulses.

PEP | Article - Clinical: Michael Bálint. 'A Contribution to the Psychology of Menstruation.' Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 1937, Vol. VI, pp. 346–352. - Dooley, Lucile