This book covers the phenomenon of stalking in its two major variations, sexual and surveillance, by emphasizing its central relevance to today's social, cultural, and political dilemmas with particular reference to stalking in cyberspace and its inevitable invasions of privacy.
Series Editors Preface -- Preface -- Introduction and overview --
Developmental Roots -- From psychoanalysis, neuroscience, and attachment
theory -- Sexual Stalking -- Erotomania and unrequited love: case vignettes
-- Erotomania and unrequited love: film portrayals of sexual stalking --
Voyeurism, sadism, and the primal scene in film portrayals of stalking and in
filming itself -- Gender and sexual stalking -- Surveillance Stalking -- Film
portrayals of surveillance stalking -- Stalking and Hacking in the World we
Live in: The Planet Earth and Cyberspace -- Celebrity stalking -- Stalking in
cyberspace: hacking and spying -- Privacy vs. security in present-day cyber
attacks -- Epilogue
Helen K.Gediman, PhD, ABPP, FIPA, is Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychology at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, where she is also a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst.She is a member and Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at the Contemporary Freudian Society in both its New York City and Washington D.C. Programs. She is also a member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR); the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA); the Confederation of Independent Societies of the IPA (CIPS), and the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA), where she serves as a councillor on its Board of Directors as a delegate of Contemporary Freudians in APsaA (CFIA). Dr Gediman has published extensively in psychoanalytic journals and is the author of 'Fantasies of Love and Death in Life and Art', and co-author of 'Ego Functions in Schizophrenics, Neurotics and Normals' (with Leopold Bellak and Marvin S. Hurvich) and 'The Many Faces of Deceit' (with Janice S. Lieberman). She is in full time private practice in New York City.
