Muriel Dimen

Lapsus linguae, or A Slip of the Tongue? A Sexual Violation in an Analytic Treatment and Its Personal and Theoretical Aftermath
... a revolutionary essay on the cutting edge of psychoanalytic theory and writing.

With Culture in Mind: Psychoanalytic Stories
... a different sort of anthology. More conversation than collection, it illuminates the analyst’s struggle to grasp a patient’s internal life as voiced through individual and cultural contexts. Each chapter is a gem-like case vignette that brings to the fore personal aspects of race, gender, sexual orientation, heritage, ethnicity, and class in the analytic encounter. Discussions by three senior analysts further deconstruct patients’ and analysts’ mutual embeddedness in a process at once clinical and political.

Sexuality, Intimacy, Power
Taking an irreverent look at conventional assumptions, Sexuality, Intimacy, Power shows how radically re-visioning psychosexuality benefits therapists and patients alike. A brilliant example of contemporary psychoanalytic theory at its destabilizing best, it is equally a historical document that will intrigue and enlighten students of women’s, gender, and queer studies.

Surviving Sexual Contradictions: A Startling and Different Look at a Day in the Life of a Professional Woman
"A woman's odyssey from which you come out a little feistier than before."

The Anthropological Imagination
“...explores the new vistas and understandings opened up by anthropology...with a new vibrance and a new voice...and does this nearly impossible thing: presents the instruments of anthropological understanding in ways that flow from experience itself to allow readers to comprehend their own reality by themselves and for themselves.”