After Words: The Personal in Gender, Cultural and Psychotherapy

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For a long time the human sciences have debated the relationship between social structures (the group) and subjectivity (the individual) with much of the debate centring round areas such as identity (gender, race, sexuality), discourse (talk, conversation, the limits of language) and therapy. This study, by a respected academic in the cross-cutting fields of gender studies, therapy and psychoanalysis, brings together important material on these debates, thus providing a contribution to theory on the relationships between psychology, psychotherapy and social theory. Stephen Frosh's book helps develop new ways of understanding the transformation of relations between self and society.

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'Stephen Frosh...writes superbly well about the modern love of rationality, with its reputation being infinitely superior (and masculine) to that of emotion: the feminine, the out-of-control.' - Julia Neuberger, Chief Executive of The King's Fund, Jewish Chronicle

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Stephen Frosh is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Centre for Psychosocial Studies, at Birkbeck College, University of London. He was previously Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the Tavistock Clinic, London. He is the author of numerous academic papers and several books including For and Against Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference; Masculinity and Psychoanalysis, Identity Crisis; Modernity, Psychoanalysis and the Self, The Politics of Psychoanalysis and, most recently, Young Masculinities (with Ann Phoenix and Rob Pattman).