What women want: psychodynamics of women's sexuality in 2008.
Sexual differentiation of the brain and behavior occurs as the result of prenatal hormonal influences. The fact that the brain is gendered from before birth means that psychodynamic paradigms of women's development must be modernized. This article discusses extra-analytic observations that we need to consider in constructing an up-to-date psychodynamic theory of women's sexuality.
Downey
Jennifer I
JI
Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, New York, USA. jid1@columbia.edu
D001921:Brain / Q000196:embryology; D004328:Drive; D005201:Fantasy; D005260:Female; D005619:Freudian Theory; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009042:Motivation; D009769:Object Attachment; D012727:Sex Characteristics; D012733:Sex Differentiation / Q000502:physiology; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D019529:Sexuality / Q000523:psychology*; D014930:Women / Q000523:psychology*