Danielle Redland was awarded her PhD from the psychoanalytic studies department at Goldsmiths University of London in 2018. She works as a psychotherapist in private practice and as an assessor and intake counsellor in the charitable sector, as well as being clinical manager of a counselling referral service. Born and raised in Manchester, she now lives in London with her family.
An extraordinarily compelling panorama of this still-taboo subject, with an original and innovative focus on secondary amenorrhea. Redland ranges from the social, cultural, historical and psychological role of blood in human experience to Freud's shameful encounter with it in the case of Emma Eckstein. The writing is scholarly and sensitive, and the book will find a warm reception on women's studies as well as psychoanalytic studies. As one who examined the work when it was still a PhD thesis, I can confirm that the transition to book form has been achieved to a superb degree. Andrew Samuels, Former Professor of Analytical Psychology, University of Essex What does it mean when a woman of menstruating age stops bleeding and what does it matter to her or to us? Working through anthropology, myth and literature, Danielle Redland links the cessation of menses to unconscious registers suggesting that there is a communication of the psyche that looks to the body to find expression; she shows how these themes recur not only in cultural and historical narratives world-wide but also in examples she gives from the consulting room. In this highly original and important text, Redland offers a psychoanalytic perspective on Ovid's Metamorphosis and George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion while also examining the role of the male practitioner - analyst, doctor or both - in a study of Freud's failed treatment of Emma Eckstein. In a brand-new take on the dynamic between body and mind, Danielle Redland presses the question: is such an opposition still viable? The result is a ground-breaking analysis of what this means for women, symptoms and psychoanalysis itself. Christopher Hauke, Jungian analyst, Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London. Author of the Routledge book, Jung and the Postmodern. The Interpretation of Realities. An extraordinarily compelling panorama of this still-taboo subject, with an original and innovative focus on secondary amenorrhea. Redland ranges from the social, cultural, historical and psychological role of blood in human experience to Freud's shameful encounter with it in the case of Emma Eckstein. The writing is scholarly and sensitive, and the book will find a warm reception on women's studies as well as psychoanalytic studies. As one who examined the work when it was still a PhD thesis, I can confirm that the transition to book form has been achieved to a superb degree. Andrew Samuels, Former Professor of Analytical Psychology, University of Essex What does it mean when a woman of menstruating age stops bleeding and what does it matter to her or to us? Working through anthropology, myth and literature, Danielle Redland links the cessation of menses to unconscious registers suggesting that there is a communication of the psyche that looks to the body to find expression; she shows how these themes recur not only in cultural and historical narratives world-wide but also in examples she gives from the consulting room. In this highly original and important text, Redland offers a psychoanalytic perspective on Ovid's Metamorphosis and George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion while also examining the role of the male practitioner - analyst, doctor or both - in a study of Freud's failed treatment of Emma Eckstein. In a brand-new take on the dynamic between body and mind, Danielle Redland presses the question: is such an opposition still viable? The result is a ground-breaking analysis of what this means for women, symptoms and psychoanalysis itself. Christopher Hauke, Jungian analyst, Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London. Author of Jung and the Postmodern:The Interpretation of Realities