Freud, Females, Childbirth, and Dissidence: Margarete Hilferding, Karen Horney, and Otto Rank

Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, London; Member of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Yale Medical School; Staff Psychiatrist, Yale University Student Mental Health and Counseling; and Training and Supervising analyst at the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis. She has published on female development, the history of psychoanalysis, and the work of Hans Loewald; edited two issues of Psychoanalytic Inquiry on Mothers and Daughters; and published prizewinning papers on the pregnant Mother and the body image of her daughter and the integration of male identity into a female gender portrait. Recently a plenary speaker for the American Psychoanalytic Association, she spoke on Childbirth as a neglected feature in psychoanalytic clinical and gender theory. Her latest book is Women's Bodies in Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2013). On the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Quarterly and Imago, she is co-editor of the Book Review section of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association.