Women, Stereotypes and Archetypes - Tapa dura

Reseña del editor

The book Women, Stereotypes and Archetypes, by Manisha Roy,  explores the complexity of modern woman’s identity which is no longer supported by convenient but limiting stereotypes. The book tries to answer following questions :

-How do the women handle the confusion arising from such a loss?

-If stereotypes are rejected can understanding of the meaning and function of the archetypes in human psyche offer the majority of women guidelines to a secure identity?

-Is an American woman's problem of identity different from that of a woman of another culture?

-And finally, where does all this change and crisis lead?  Examples from the author’s analytical practice of 40 years and life-long anthropological research and teaching are used to support her observations and conclusions.

Biografía del autor

Manisha Roy, Ph. D, IAAP, is a trained geographer and anthropologist and received her diploma in analytical psychology from the C.G. Jung Institute of Zurich, Switzerland in 1982. She has been in private practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts and is a training analyst and in the faculty of the Jung Institute of Boston for 40 years. She has taught both anthropology and analytical psychology at several universities including Universities of Colorado, Denver, Long Beach, California and the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Dr. Roy has lectured all over the world. Among numerous publications she has 32 articles and 10 books, three of which are fiction and two are in her mother tongue Bengali. Her first book, Bengali Women (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1976, 1993), has gone through two prints and two editions and now it's available electronically as well. This book has been a text at many Women's Studies departments of various universities. Her latest book, My Four Homes, is published by Chiron Publications, in Asheville, North Carolina. Dr. Roy lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband, who is a retired physician and author.