Anatomy of the Clitoris

Dr Anne Zachary is a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society and fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. She has had a thriving psychoanalytic practice for nearly thirty years. Her NHS training in psychotherapy was at the Cassel Hospital, London, and afterwards she spent eighteen months in a locum consultant post at the Maudsley hospital. From 1988 - 2010 she worked part-time as an NHS consultant at the Portman Clinic, Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust, specializing in sexual perversion, violence and delinquency. During this time she was also seconded at different times to various medium secure settings and for five years (2003 - 8) to the high secure setting, Broadmoor Hospital.

‘Anne Zachary draws on a rich mix of history, biology, psychoanalytic theory, and a wealth of clinical experience in her study of female sexuality. She questions widely held beliefs about the female body, and suggests that a re-interpretation of the form and functions of female genitalia has important implications for how we can understand women’s social and sexual identities and experiences.’-Renée Danziger, fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society

• Introduction1 Womankind through history2 The anatomy of the clitoris: a re - interpretation 3 The historical development of the psychoanalytic theory of female sexuality (1897 – 2000)4 The anatomy of the clitoris: a psychic representationThe implications of the re – interpretation of the anatomy of the clitoris for clinical practice and psychoanalytic theory:5 Bisexuality: the universal phenomenon6 Motherhood: the fundamental aim7 Femininity: the key to the box8 Aggression: and the female form9 Recent developments in the literatureAfterthoughts