The courage to fight violence against women : psychoanalytic and multidisciplinary perspectives

Unconscious fantasy and the courage to fight against women / Paul L. Ellman -- Witnessing and resilience: commentary on being involved in 'The courage to fight violence against women' / Nancy R. Goodman -- Human sex trafficking: extreme violence against women / Vivian B. Pender -- How art imitates life / Diana Romero -- Sex trafficking: commentary on Chapters Three and Four / Margarita Cereijido -- Girls at risk: paths to safety, interventions with female adolescents at sexual risk in Quintana Roo, Mexico / Raquel Berman -- Sew to speak: story cloth healing with survivors of sexual violence / Rachel A. Cohen and Ana Maria Ramirez -- Commentary on 'Girls at risk' and 'Sew to speak' / Carla Neely -- Violation: a poem / Myra Sklarew with Introduction by Nancy R. Goodman -- Anatomy of a man's assault on a woman / Donald Campbell -- Commentary on Donald Campbell's 'Anatomy of a man's assault on a woman' / Justine Kalas Reeves -- End rape on campus (EROC) and the making of 'The Hunting Ground' / Annie Clark -- Combatting femicide in Mexico: acheivements and ongoing challenges / Maureen Meyer -- Justice matters: scaling up the response to sexual violence in areas of conflict and unrest / Hope Ferdowsian -- Women seeking asylum due to gender-based violence / Katalin Roth -- Violence against women worldwide: a commentary on Chapters Fifteen to Seventeen / Luois W. Goodman -- Poems on violence against women / E. Ethelbert Miller, Poert Laureate with Introduction by Louis W. Goodman -- Violence against women in the work of women artists / Janice S. Lieberman -- Woman: power and representation in pre-Columbian societies in the Andean region / Moiśs Lemlij -- Maternal imago and bodily symptoms / Rosine Jozef Perelberg -- Discussion of Lemlij and Perelberg: women of power / Arlene Kramer Richards -- Introduction to 'Traces in the Wind' / Robin Dean -- A staged reading for remembrance, reminder, and inspiration: 'Traces in the Wind' / Gail Humphries Mardirosian

In recent years there has been a surge in awareness of the many arenas in which violence against women occurs. There is a growing attention to human and sex trafficking and femicide throughout the world. Female genital mutilation along with childhood marriage and rape occur regularly in many societies. Sexual victimization of women in custody is now exposed. College campus violence against women has been a serious problem and only recently acknowledged.

In this edited book psychoanalysts show how violence can be seen, known and represented on the world stage and in psychoanalytic treatment. The editors bring psychoanalytic ideas and understanding in an effort to comprehend violence against women. Observing the active witnessing of the contributors to this book elucidates the way trauma is transformed into resilience and healing. Scholars and psychoanalysts from Argentina, Mexico, Peru, the United Kingdom and the United States together address this serious problem along with the consideration of depictions of violence against women in film, art, drama and poetry. With courage, multiple modalities of intervention become possible. Additionally, psychoanalysts develop psychoanalytic commentary of the presentations, bringing the psychoanalytic mind to the larger arena of the many courageous efforts at fighting violence against women.