Drawing on Dinora Pines' lifetime of clinical experience this classic book provides a psychoanalytic understanding of women's relationships with their bodies, focusing on key moments in women's lives.


With chapters organised to follow the female life-cycle, topics covered include:








the turbulence of adolescence
pregnancy and childbirth
infertility and abortion
menopause and old age
the traumatic effects of surviving the Holocaust.





With a foreword from Susie Orbach, this book will be of interest to mental health professionals including counsellors, psychotherapists and psychoanalysts.