Women as Woman

Reviews the book, The Woman in America by Robert Jay Lifton (Ed.) (see record 1965-14834-000). This book is the outcome of a conference called by Daedalus magazine in 1963. As a series of contributions to our knowledge of women in America, their problems and their solutions, it is this reviewer's opinion that the psychological- analytic group comes off rather badly. Why? Their contributions are marred by lack of definition of their subjects; by a lack of demographic data; by use of case-studies that have limited generalization; by reliance on psychoanalyticallyoriented views that lack adequate evidence in the eyes of those of us who are data-oriented rather than faith-oriented; and by an almost total disregard for either the notion of individual differences or the danger of stereotypes. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)