Boy Crazy: Remembering Adolescence, Therapies and Dreams

Illustrated throughout with fascinating examples from a groundbreaking study of school and university students' adolescent memories and dreams,Boy Crazyweaves 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. In describing this aspect of both sexes' formation,Boy Crazyprovides an important introduction to recent findings and theories in developmental and clinical psychology, particularly its Freudian, Jungian and feminist variants.