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Gender Psychology

1. The Feminine Mystique

   Betty Friedan, Kirsten Fermaglich, Lisa Fine

   The first student edition of Betty Friedan’s national best seller published in honor of its fiftieth anniversary. The Feminine Mystique forever changed America’s consciousness by defining “the problem that has no name.”More

2. Gay Affirmative Therapy for the Straight Clinician: The Essential Guide

   Joe Kort

   All the answers straight clinicians need to work effectively with gay and lesbian clients.More

3. Nurturing Queer Youth: Family Therapy Transformed

   Linda Stone Fish, Rebecca G. Harvey

   Youth are coming out as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered at increasingly younger ages.More

4. The Feminine Mystique

   Betty Friedan, Anna Quindlen

   The book that changed the consciousness of a country—and the world.More

5. Surviving the Silence: Black Women's Stories of Rape

   Charlotte Pierce-Baker

   In this "intelligent", "stunning", and "honest" book, Charlotte Pierce-Baker weaves together the accounts of black women who have been raped and who have felt that they had to remain silent in order to protect themselves and their race.
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6. The Improvised Woman: Single Women Reinventing Single Life

   Marcelle Clements

   "A remarkable new book. . . . Marcelle Clements's The Improvised Woman has that exhilarating Eureka! quality. . . . In its modest, quizzical way, The Improvised Woman is a visionary work." —MirabellaMore

7. Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation

   Steven Levenkron

   The author of the seminal and groundbreaking Treating and Overcoming Anorexia Nervosa now explains the phenomena of self-mutilation, a disorder that affects as many as two million Americans.More

8. Secret Paths: Women in the New Midlife

   Terri Apter

   "The author of Altered Loves . . . now turns her analytical eye toward middle-aged women. The result is both lively and revealing." --New York Times Book ReviewMore

9. Flying Solo: Single Women in Midlife

   Carol M. Anderson, Susan Stewart, Sona Dimidjian

   A groundbreaking book portraying the new American lifestyle of single midlife women.More

10. The Neurotic Personality of Our Time

    Karen Horney

    In this work, Karen Horney explores the basic structure of neuroses in the context of their cultural assumptions.More

11. Feminine Psychology

    Karen Horney

    As a psychoanalytic pioneer, Karen Horney questioned some of Freud's formulations of psychosexual development, particularly in relation to women.More

12. Our Inner Conflicts: A Constructive Theory of Neurosis

    Karen Horney

    Here Karen Horney develops a dynamic theory of neurosis centered on the basic conflict among attitudes of "moving forward" "moving against," and "moving away from" people.More

13. Freud on Women: A Reader

    Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

    Ever since Freud made his first major statements about female sexuality and psychology, his views have been the focus of intense debate—both within psychoanalysis and without.More

14. Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Towards Self-Realization

    Karen Horney

    One of the most original psychoanalysts after Freud, Karen Horney pioneered such now familiar concepts as alienation, self-realization, and the idealized image, and she brought to psychoanalysis a new understanding of the importance of culture and environment.More

15. Final Lectures

    Karen Horney, Douglas H. Ingram

    This book presents the lectures Karen Horney gave her class on psychoanalytic technique during the last year of her life.More