EventsColette Dowling is an internationally known writer and lecturer and a psychotherapist with a private practice in New York. In the fall of 2005 she will be giving a lecture at The Training Institute for Mental Health, in Manhattan, on women’s vulnerabilities in loving and being loved. Dowling will discuss new theories on why women so often are drawn to relationships in which they idealize their partners and become submissive. She will draw on personal experiences, as written about in her bestselling The Cinderella Complex, as well as those of women she’s interviewed who find themselves losing a sense of identity once they fall in love. Among the topics to be discussed are: --Childhood experiences that make women vulnerable to relationships in which they become submissive --Why the distant, abandoning lover becomes the Ideal Lover --Mother as a model of sexuality --The role of aggression in passionate love --Research on women who experience themselves as active, creative partners in romance and sex Ms. Dowling is currently writing a book about women’s conflicts with loving and being loved. You will find the date for her lecture here, later, or you can call the Training Institute for Mental Health, which is located at 20 West 21st St., NYC, NY, at 212-627-8181. |
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