“At times, I could murder him!” says Alan, complaining about his lazy son who’s refusing to go to school. Amy is about to say goodbye to the class of 6-year-olds she’s been teaching for over a year.

Misogyny, Projective Identification, and Mentalization tells the story of women who have been erased, dismissed, and devalued, while putting forth a hypothesis about why the phenomenon occurs and what ...