by [by] Wayne Andersen (2001)
"Freud initiated psychobiography with his 1910 Leonardo da Vinci: A Memory of His Childhood, but was mislead by translators of Leonardo's recollection.". "Andersen proves that the mistake was not Freud's. After bringing to light information that Freud could not have known about Leonardo's illegitimate birth and the circumstances of his infancy and youth in Florence, Andersen provides a new reading, seamlessly fusing psychoanalysis with fifteenth-century Florentine art history. He explodes one myth after another, taking issue with tenacious beliefs about Leonardo's sexuality, his vegetarianism, and tenderness toward animals. After laying Leonardo's recollection parallel to a dream by Freud's most famous patient, the Wolf Man, Andersen offers an entirely new interpretation of Leonardo's sexuality. In so doing, he exposes Freud's self-interest in how he constructed his analysis of both the Wolf Man and Leonardo da Vinci."--BOOK JACKET.
Sigmund Freud
One of Freud's key works which, along with 'Introduction to Psychoanalysis' and 'The Ego and the Id' laid the basic framework for his theories of psychoanalysis.
Jeffrey S. Nevid
Psychology: Concepts and Applications has been developed based upon the author's research on how students best learn from a textbook. It presents a concept-based modular organization focused on four key objectives: to enhance learning, engage student interest, sharpen critical thinking skills, and incorporate technology as a tool for learning. The text provides a broad perspective on psychology that covers the history, methods of research, major theories, and research findings of the discipline, as well as applications of the knowledge gained from contemporary research to the problems and challenges we face in today's world. - Preface.
Emily Hancock
Any woman reading The Girl Within will have the extraordinary experience of self-discovery as she finds in this collection of women's life stories the playful, purposeful, self-possessed girl of her childhood. Author Emily Hancock claims that this self-possessed girl -- a girl who knows who she is and what she's about -- is a resource for contemporary women. Dr. Hancock concludes, however, that a female easily loses sight of who and what she really is beneath the feminine facade she adopts in youth -- simply through the process of growing up female. The women Hancock interviewed reclaim the forgotten girl. They trace not just one but a variety of paths back to her. In a series of first-person accounts that read like marvelous mini-novels, Hancock elucidates the vicissitudes of losing and refinding the essential self. From the story of Katherine, a pediatrician whose grandmother hosted musical salons, to that of Jo, whose father put bootblack on her white socks when her toes poked through her black shoes, the girl who harbors a female's original identity reappears again and again. Women who reached back to catch hold of a girl they could rely on to found in the girl a source of womanly strength. Through engrossing life stories, psychologist Hancock provides the female reader one self-realization after another as she clarifies the girl's image and shows how important it is to recapture her. Like Gail Sheehy's Passages and Maggie Scarf's Unfinished Business, Hancock's is a landmark book. Written in a style as lucid as it is lively, it gives the intelligent reader -- man and woman alike -- an invaluable understanding of the forces at work in women's psychology. The Girl Within offers a natural, female model of identity development that starts with the girl and circles back to her. In a study that is destined to have a profound impact, Hancock shows just how the girl begets the woman.
Alice Sheppard
Challenging conventional stereotypes of the political cartoonist, dozens of American women made cartoons advocating women's suffrage in the early twentieth century. Their compelling and imaginative cartoons, strengthened by newly established art education for women, provide incisive and vivid commentaries on suffrage issues. Sheppard interweaves histories of the political cartoon and the suffrage movement with descriptions of the work and lives of prominent American women cartoonists. She examines the symbolism of the suffrage cartoon, the unique qualities of cartoons created by women, and relations between these images and modern feminist thought. Her narrative is enlivened with over two hundred examples of cartoon art, the result of extensive research in private and public collections. Cartooning for Suffrage will provide a crucial framework for those who would explore and integrate these remarkable images into their work in history, art, politics, popular culture, and women's studies.