Arlene Kramer Richards

• Series Editor's Foreword , Preface , Introduction: Mighty Medea, or why female figures from Greco-Roman antiquity matter today , Ancona's introduction: implications for psychoanalytic psychotherapists , The Power of Goddesses and Strong Women , What do women want? Inanna and the might of women , Meng Jiangnü: reflections about a Chinese myth , Taiko, Japanese drumming: the light returns, our hearts beat, the body knows , Contributions Part I: implications for psychoanalytic psychotherapy , The Power of Victims, Avengers, and Tricksters , Three archetypes in myth: the goddess, the witch, and the mortal , Helen of Troy knocks ’em dead: a story of kidnapping, rape, revenge, and the aftermath , Miriam the prophetess and others: biblical heroines lost and found , Contributions Part II: implications for psychoanalytic psychotherapy , The Power of Mothers and the Goddesses within , Boadicea, warrior queen: a baby’s perspective and an analysand’s perspective , Medea, almighty mother , The mother of safety is the phantasied mother of power , Contributions Part III: implications for psychoanalytic psychotherapy , The Power of Women’s Sexuality , The last word: Molly Bloom , The old crone , Contributions Part IV: implications for psychoanalytic psychotherapy , The Father’s Contribution to Women’s Power , Athena, Antigone, and their modern avatars , Heroines and mythology of contemporary girls , Contributions Part V: implications for psychoanalytic psychotherapy , Part , Conclusion , Epilogue

Arlene Kramer Richards

• Series Editor's Foreword , Preface , Introduction: Mighty Medea, or why female figures from Greco-Roman antiquity matter today , Ancona's introduction: implications for psychoanalytic psychotherapists , The Power of Goddesses and Strong Women , What do women want? Inanna and the might of women , Meng Jiangnü: reflections about a Chinese myth , Taiko, Japanese drumming: the light returns, our hearts beat, the body knows , Contributions Part I: implications for psychoanalytic psychotherapy , The Power of Victims, Avengers, and Tricksters , Three archetypes in myth: the goddess, the witch, and the mortal , Helen of Troy knocks ’em dead: a story of kidnapping, rape, revenge, and the aftermath , Miriam the prophetess and others: biblical heroines lost and found , Contributions Part II: implications for psychoanalytic psychotherapy , The Power of Mothers and the Goddesses within , Boadicea, warrior queen: a baby’s perspective and an analysand’s perspective , Medea, almighty mother , The mother of safety is the phantasied mother of power , Contributions Part III: implications for psychoanalytic psychotherapy , The Power of Women’s Sexuality , The last word: Molly Bloom , The old crone , Contributions Part IV: implications for psychoanalytic psychotherapy , The Father’s Contribution to Women’s Power , Athena, Antigone, and their modern avatars , Heroines and mythology of contemporary girls , Contributions Part V: implications for psychoanalytic psychotherapy , Part , Conclusion , Epilogue

Arlene Kramer Richards

• Series Editor's Foreword , Preface , Introduction: Mighty Medea, or why female figures from Greco-Roman antiquity matter today , Ancona's introduction: implications for psychoanalytic psychotherapists , The Power of Goddesses and Strong Women , What do women want? Inanna and the might of women , Meng Jiangnü: reflections about a Chinese myth , Taiko, Japanese drumming: the light returns, our hearts beat, the body knows , Contributions Part I: implications for psychoanalytic psychotherapy , The Power of Victims, Avengers, and Tricksters , Three archetypes in myth: the goddess, the witch, and the mortal , Helen of Troy knocks ’em dead: a story of kidnapping, rape, revenge, and the aftermath , Miriam the prophetess and others: biblical heroines lost and found , Contributions Part II: implications for psychoanalytic psychotherapy , The Power of Mothers and the Goddesses within , Boadicea, warrior queen: a baby’s perspective and an analysand’s perspective , Medea, almighty mother , The mother of safety is the phantasied mother of power , Contributions Part III: implications for psychoanalytic psychotherapy , The Power of Women’s Sexuality , The last word: Molly Bloom , The old crone , Contributions Part IV: implications for psychoanalytic psychotherapy , The Father’s Contribution to Women’s Power , Athena, Antigone, and their modern avatars , Heroines and mythology of contemporary girls , Contributions Part V: implications for psychoanalytic psychotherapy , Part , Conclusion , Epilogue