Treatment of Crises in the Lives of Women: Object Loss and Identity Threat

Natalie Shainess, M.D.Authors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychotherapy

Volume 31, Number 2

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1977.31.2.227

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A review of crises occurring in practice within a year’s time suggested that these related essentially to object loss or threat to identity, at any age level, although certain phases find women inherently more vulnerable. Therapeutic efforts call for special sensitivity to the effects of rapid cultural change, and altered goals and expectations of women.

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American Journal of Psychotherapy

Volume 31 • Number 2 • 1977, pp. 181–340

Pages: 227 - 237

PubMed: 879377

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Published in print: 1977, pp. 181–340

Published online: 30 April 2018

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Natalie Shainess, M.D.^†

NewYork, N.Y.

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Presented at the Twelfth National Scientific Meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Psychotherapy, May 9, 1976, in Miami Beach, Fla.

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Faculty, William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology; Lecturer in Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Mailing address: 140 East 83rd St., New York, N.Y. 10028.

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Treatment of Crises in the Lives of Women: Object Loss and Identity Threat

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