Boy Crazy; Author: Sayers, Janet; Hardback; Book

Author: Sayers, Janet
Hardback; Book
200 pages
Published: July 1998
Taylor & Francis Books Ltd
ISBN: 0415190843
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Illustrated throughout with fascinating examples from a groundbreaking study of school and university students' adolescent memories and dreams, Boy Crazy weaves together telling vignettes from fiction and film with the author's own work as a therapist. Janet Sayers controversially argues that men and women often pursue radically different paths in response to the sexual awakening of adolescence, while also often being alike in seeking to resolve the divisions and conflicts involved through flight into male-centered idealization of themselves or others as heroic saviors or gods. Indescribing this aspect of both sexes' formation, Boy Crazy provides an important introduction to recent findings and theories in developmental and clinical psychology, particularly its Freudian, JungiDrawing on extensive research, Janet Sayers demonstrates the significance we attach in adulthood to our experiences as adolescents. She also explores the extent to which Freud, Jung and feminism shape our understanding of adolescent experiences.