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Freud and Women, by Lucy Freeman and Herbert S. Strean. New York: Continuum Publishing, 1987, 238 pp., $10.95.
Psychoanalysis and Women: Contemporary Reappraisals, edited by Judith L. Alpert. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press, 1986, xix + 340 pp., $36.00.
One of the gratuitous rewards of longevity is to be witness to dramatic change. That change was brought about largely by the women's movement. And, it is particularly gratifying that, in contrast to so much of what has happened in the last half century, this can be labeled as progress. It was a matter of personal good fortune that I had, in the last 20 years, the opportunity to be a close observer and somewhat of an activist. Although endpoint is still a great distance away, for me it provided an exception to Pastor Reinhold Niebuhr's caution that anything really worthwhile cannot be accomplished in one lifetime. And happiness is compounded as I see that my own very conservative profession is fast catching up with this salutary sea change. The “helping professions,” along with theologians and religionists, although kicking and screaming, are now confronting both sickness and sin in the illumination largely provided by others. Our professions are becoming gender integrated.