The present study proposed to investigate the effects of level of acculturation and of language of the therapy interview on self-disclosure by Mexican-American women. It was predicted that self-disclosure would be affected by both level of acculturation and by the language of the initial therapy interview. The principal implication of this finding is that for the first-generation Mexican-American woman, that is, a woman who has not acculturated to the mainstream society, the language in which therapy is conducted constitutes a significant factor in predicting whether she is likely to self disclose and thereby benefit from the therapy. The findings of this study suggest that less acculturated Mexican-American women would be more likely to utilize mental health services if they are available in Spanish.

In the existing literature, the constructs of "madness" and "woman' have long been associated with one another. This association has led to attempts by various authors, and also this current work, to deconstruct the constructs of madness and gender. The association between the constructs of "madness" and gender is seen in terms of metaphor. The relationship between the constructs of madness" and "woman" are described in terms of the manner in which meanings of metaphors of duality are collapsed onto one another. The approach to this discussion typifies the current shift in the human sciences from a belief in objective bias-neutral research to a new kind of self -conscious and sophisticated reality. I placed myself in this discussion as a researcher and a therapist, influenced by feminist, contextual and social constructionist ideas. The structure of this discussion was employed to reflect the theoretical perspectives mentioned above.therapist, influenced by feminist, contextual and social constructionist ideas. / Psychology / M.A. (Clinical Psychology)

As cirurgias estéticas no corpo, com freqüência cada vez maior entre as mulheres e ao mesmo tempo enaltecidas significativamente pela mídia e pelo contexto social têm se configurado atualmente como um novo modo de expressão para o corpo feminino. Questionamos então, que significações são atribuídas a esta imagem de corpo, pelas mulheres que se submetem às cirurgias estéticas. Para tanto, objetivamos analisar, do ponto de vista psicanalítico: como acontece a construção da imagem corporal no processo do tornar-se mulher; que problemáticas são reveladas por estas mulheres no tocante às idealizações deste corpo e de que modo está configurado no imaginário feminino o culto ao corpo da atualidade. Neste sentido, coletamos, simultaneamente, alguns depoimentos de mulheres que já se submeteram a tais cirurgias e em seguida fizemos a análise de alguns fragmentos dessas entrevistas, de modo a encadeá-Ias nas possibilidades de uma compreensão psicanalítica da problemática ora discutida / The aesthetics surgeries in the body, with frequency much more higher between the women and at the same time exalted significantly for the propaganda and the social context, has been configured currently as new way of expression to the feminine body. We question then, which significations are imputed to this body image, whose women submit aesthetics surgeries. In such a way, we objectify to analyze, from the psychoanalytic point of view: how the construction of the corporal image happens in the process of becoming woman; which problematical are disclosed by these women referring to the idealizations narcissists of this body and that way are configured in the feminine imaginary the cult to the body of the present time. According to this, we collected, simultaneously, some speech of women whom already have had submitted to such surgeries and after that we made an analysis of speech of these contents, in arder to chain in one comprehension psychoanalytic of the problematical now argued

A presente pesquisa é de natureza teórica e, especificamente de natureza bibliográfica. Em uma perspectiva interdisciplinar, ela visa aprofundar a dimensão mítica do feminino e a dimensão feminina do mito, a partir das contribuições psicanalíticas de Freud e de Lacan, bem como da análise narrativa do texto bíblico, destacando, neste, o estudo de algumas mulheres da Bíblia (citadas no evangelho de Mateus e participantes da genealogia de Cristo). Elaborado em um clima de diálogo entre a Psicanálise e a literatura bíblica, o presente trabalho espera oferecer contribuições à teoria e à clínica psicanalíticas e às ciências da religião, no que se refere ao conceito do feminino e de seus desdobramentos. / The present survey is from theorical nature and, specifically of bibliographic nature. In a interdisciplinary perspective, it intends to go deeper into the mythic dimension of female and the feminine dimension of myth, beginning from the psychoanalytic contributions of Freud and Lacan, as so the narrative analysis study of the biblical text, pointing out, in this, the study of some women in the bible (mentioned in the gospel of Mathew and participants of the Christ genealogy). Elaborated in the atmosphere of dialog between psychoanalyze and biblical literature, the present work hopes to offer contributions to the theory and psycanalitic clinic and religion science, in reference of female conception and its implications.

M.Sc. / The present study explores the personal narratives of three battered women who have been involved in the killing of their batterers, with regards to the processes of the perpetuation of abuse and victimising patterns in contexts of the battering - relationships, the criminal justice system and the prison system, which contribute to the co-creation of the women's sense of self and identity. The narratives unfold from a prison setting, where these three women are serving long-term sentences. The narratives are described within a social constructionist perspective. Two-tape recorded conversations of an hour and a half were held with each of the participants in this study. The conversations included a written dialogue from the women. In-depth interviews were used to guide the emerging narratives. The reflections of the researcher are linked to the analysis of the co-created narratives. The narratives suggest that the recognition of these women as victims of violence is clouded by the need for larger systems, namely, the criminal justice system and the prison system to identify the women as perpetrators of violence. The prison system parallels the battering relationship in positioning the women as victims. Suggestions around the treatment of- battered women who kill in prison, include communally validating the experiences and feelings of these women through the processes of group therapy. Re-categorising the women in prison, as battered women who kill, rather than murderers so as to recognise the context of the battered women is suggested. Community service is considered as an alternative to long term imprisonment. Community outreach programs from prison to share knowledge of battered women who kill is also suggested. Government policies, where possible, should be made accessible and government sponsored shelters should be established so as to recognise battered women who kill as victims of violence. Children of battered women who kill should be given assistance and provided with necessary treatment. Empirical research is needed in order to determine the prevalence of battered women who kill. Comparative studies are needed to determine whether these findings can be generalised to the general population of battered women who kill.

D.Litt et Phil. / The study explored strategies abused women use to overcome power and control in their intimate relationships, using their own self-agency. Data was collected through the technique of triangulation in which three women who were legally divorced, wrote their own stories, after which each was individually interviewed by the researcher to get information about the process of leaving and staying away from their abusive relationships, and clearing up and moving on with their lives. Grounded theory was used to analyse the stories, the individual interviews, and the focused group discussion to generate information about the process of leaving abusive relationships on a more abstract level. The study is based on the epistemological underpinnings of post-modernism and feminism. The categories of open coding were generated from the research process and the data: These are abuse, emotional absence, dependence, resistance, use of absolutes, expectations, idealism, independence, decision-making, empowerment, recovery, innate strength and resources, self-esteem, culture and religion, introspection, verbal conceptualisation, hope, spirituality, and absence of social justice. Participants used a broad range of empowerment strategies in the process of leaving their abusive marital relationships and showed that leaving an abusive relationship is a recursive process of leaving and returning, for which women cannot be blamed. They had to make a paradigm shift to establish a basis for leaving, use their internal and external resources to make it on their own, and utilise aspects of psychological, social, racial/cultural, and religious forms of empowerment to advocate on their own behalf. The process of decision-making enabled them to gradually reclaim control over their lives. The empowerment of abused women was not necessarily equivalent to their full recovery from abuse, even though this was a pivotal point in the recovery process that began long before the women left their relationships. The results show that those women who had innate strength and were able to use it to access community resources, were more likely to leave abusive relationships. The women who participated in this study managed to leave their abusive marriages, despite having their lives threatened; each of them grew and developed personally and transformed their lives. Each has realised that there is life after abuse.

M.A. / The overall objective of the global research project of which the present study is a part, is to create a greater awareness and understanding of the association between physiology and psychology, specifically with regard to IBS. Investigations are being conducted into the contribution of such factors as stress, anxiety, depression, somatization, psychopathology. early sexual abuse and physical abuse to the development and management of IBS. The present study aims to assess the incidence of co-morbid psychopathology in patients with IBS as compared to the general population. 1.3.2 Specific Aims. The aim of the present study is to compare the incidence of concurrent psychopathology in a sample of white, female patients, aged from 25-55 years and diagnosed to have IBS, with the incidence of psychopathology in a sample of white female non-IBS controls aged 25-55 years. Of initial concern will be whether the results of this study confirm the findings of the numerous research projects which attest to the high incidence of comorbid psychopathology in patients with IBS (Chaudhary & Truelove, 1962; Liss et al., 1973; Young et al., 1976), or add support to the limited evidence that disputes these claims (Talley, Kramlinger et al., 1993; Thornton, McIntyre et al., 1990). The study then aims to consider whether the variable of gender has a significant effect on the incidence of co-morbid psychopathology in patients with IBS. As will be discussed in Chapter 3, most of the studies do not differentiate between male and female subjects even though this may well prove to be an important determining factor. As mentioned in section 1.2.1, there is a dearth of research in South Africa into IBS and, more specifically, into the incidence of co-morbid psychopathology and IBS. By restricting participants in this study to those of the white race, the aim of this study is to initiate a process in which the incidence of co-morbid psychopathology in IBS patients of all races will be assessed and compared. In addition, the present study aims to assess whether age and level of education are significant variables in determining the incidence of co-morbid psychopathology in patients with IBS. Inter-group comparisons will be made between three groups of patients with IBS divided first according to age and then according to level of education. Finally, the present study aims to be more methodologically sound than certain of the earlier research projects as reported in the literature. As will become clear in Chapters 2 and 3, a common thread running through much of the literature is the concern that the validity of results may be questionable due to methodological flaws in the design of certain research projects. Small sample size has been a problem in some studies (Liss et al., 1973; Young et al., 1976) whilst in others, the absence of a control group has limited the relevance of data (Liss et al., 1973). Furthermore, a diversity of measuring instruments have been used in the past with little if any standardisation or control of specific variables being assessed. The measuring instrument used in this study, namely the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI), allows for an accuracy and comprehensiveness of assessment not found in many previous studies (see Chapter 6, section 6.2.1.4). The PAI assesses psychopathological trends in personality functioning. The word "psychopathology" will be used in this study as substitute for the phrase "psychopathological trends in personality functioning".

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Bien que la psychanalyse ait tenté d’établir une distinction em termes de rôle maternel et paternel, les nouvelles configurations familiales et les demandes de la vie contemporaine échappent à quelque tentative de modeliser comment le couple parental doit se positionner devant ses enfants. Le sens de la maternité s’est transformée et, actuellement, les femmes sont de plus em plus distantes d’une transmission intergénérationnelle des éléments de la maternité. Beaucoup d’entre elles atteignent tardivement la maternité et, quand c’est le cas, elles ne rencontrent aucunes références antérieures qui leur donnent un support pour cette fonction. Ce paysage met en discussion certains concepts forgés par La psychanalyse et qui, selon notre opinion, ne coexistent pas bien avec les organisations familiales et sociales présentes à notre époque. Le but de la présente thèse est de discuter des réinventions des femmes concernant le processus de devenir une mère face aux contingences du contemporain, en les insistant sur la conception winnicottienne de la maternité. Cette thèse obéissait aux principes et aux ressources méthodologiques de la recherche psychanalytique, entre autres l'interprétation et le transfert du chercheur au matériel étudié, en plus d'avoir la référence théorique de la psychanalyse winnicottienne pour fonder la discussion. Afin de mener à bien la recherche, sept blogs de maternité ont été utilisés pour accéder à un matériel discursif produit par des femmes qui rapportent leurs expériences dans ce domaine. Ce lieu de recherche a permis de comprendre que l'écriture de soi dans ces espaces peut agir comme un moyen d'élaborer l'expérience maternelle, constituant des sorties créatives, ce qui nous conduit à mettre en évidence une articulation possible entre la Ciberculture et la notion d'espace potentiel décrit par Winnicott. Nous concluons que la flexibilisation concernant les rôles de père et de mère dans notre culture sous-tend notre hypothèse initiale selon laquelle la conceptualisation de la maternité et la compréhension des rôles parentaux présents dans la théorie de Winnicott doivent être revisitées. / The changes in the sphere of maternity are remarkable phenomena throughout the history of humanity, considering that they are experiences constituted by multiple factors. As much as psychoanalysis has attempted to distinguish in terms of maternal and paternal roles, new family configurations and the demands of contemporary life escape any protocolary attempt to define for the parental couple how they should position themselves before their children. The senses of motherhood have been changing, and today women are increasingly distanced from a transgenerational transmission of the elements of motherhood. This scenario raises some concepts coined by psychoanalysis that, in our view, do not fit with the family and social organizations present in our times. In this sense, the aim of the present thesis is to discuss the reinventions of women regarding the process of becoming a mother facing the contingencies of the contemporary, tensioning them to the Winnicottian conception of motherhood. This thesis obeyed the principles and methodological resources of the psychoanalytic research, among them the interpretation and the transference of the researcher to the researched material, besides having the theoretical reference of Winnicottian Psychoanalysis to base the discussion. In order to carry out the research, seven maternity blogs were used to access a discursive material produced by women who report their experiences in this field. This locus of research made possible the understanding that the writing of oneself in these spaces can act as a means of elaborating the maternal experience, constituting as creative exits, which leads us to highlight a possible articulation between the Ciberculture and the notion of potential space described by Winnicott. We conclude that flexibilization regarding the roles of father and mother in our culture underlies our initial assumption that the conceptualization on motherhood and understanding of the parental roles present in Winnicott's theory need to be revisited. / As transformações no âmbito da maternidade são fenômenos marcantes ao longo da história da humanidade, haja vista que se tratam de experiências constituídas por múltiplos fatores. Por mais que a Psicanálise tenha tentado estabelecer a distinção em termos dos papéis materno e paterno, as novas configurações familiares e as demandas da vida contemporânea escapam a qualquer tentativa protocolar que defina para o casal parental como deva se posicionar perante os filhos. Os sentidos da maternidade foram se transformando e, atualmente, as mulheres estão cada vez mais distanciadas de uma transmissão transgeracional de elementos da maternidade. Este cenário coloca em discussão alguns conceitos cunhados pela Psicanálise que, a nosso ver, não se coadunam com as organizações familiares e sociais presentes em nossos tempos. O objetivo da presente tese foi discutir as reinvenções da mulher relativas ao processo de tornar-se mãe frente às contingências da contemporaneidade, tensionando-as a partir da concepção winnicottiana de maternidade. Esta tese obedeceu aos princípios e recursos metodológicos da pesquisa psicanalítica, dentre eles a interpretação e a transferência do pesquisador ao material pesquisado, além de contar com o referencial teórico da Psicanálise winnicottiana para fundamentar a discussão. Para fins de realização da pesquisa foram utilizados sete blogs de maternidade, com vistas a acessar um material discursivo produzido por mulheres que relatam suas experiências nesta seara. Tal locus de investigação possibilitou a compreensão de que a escrita de si nesses espaços pode funcionar como meio de elaboração da experiência materna, constituindo-se como saídas criativas, o que nos leva a destacar uma possível articulação entre a Cibercultura e a noção de espaço potencial descrita por Winnicott. Concluímos que a flexibilização no que tange aos papéis de pai e mãe em nossa cultura chancela nossa suposição inicial de que a conceitualização sobre a maternidade e a compreensão sobre os papéis parentais presentes na teoria winnicottiana precisam ser revisitados.