Feminism And Psychotherapy: Reflections On Contemporary Theories And Practices

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Seu and Heenan ask contributors of this book to explore critically how their feminist beliefs, understandings and commitments inform their work as therapists and researchers, yielding a multiplicity of feminist and psychotherapeutic narratives. The book elucidates the nature of the feminist project within psychotherapy. The editors and contributors expound the dilemmas of feminist thought and practice within the contexts of therapy.

E-Book Information

  • Series: Perspectives on Psychotherapy

  • Year: 1,998

  • Pages In File: 246

  • Language: English

  • Topic: 198

  • Identifier: 9780761951902,0761951903,9780761951919,0761951911

  • Paginated: 1

  • Org File Size: 56,282,661

  • Extension: pdf

  • Tags: feminist, therapy, race, jung, theoretical framework, agency

  • Toc: Contents Introduction Power and Agency in Feminist Therapy Narrative Therapy, Feminism and Race Which Women? What Feminism? Feminist Psychotherapy and Sexual Abuse Empowerment and the Eating -Disordered Client Feminist Object Relations Theory and Therapy Psychotherapy and Working-Class Women The Rhythm Model The Creative Feminine: Kristeva and the Maternal Body Jung, the Transference and the Psychological Feminine A Feminist Systemic Therapy? Change and Theoretical Frameworks Conclusion: Questions, Answers and Absences in Feminist Psychotherapies Index