The healing connection
Subtitle: how women form relationships in therapy and in life
By: Jean Baker Miller, Irene Pierce Stiver
Contributors: Stiver, Irene P.
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Women -- Mental health.; Interpersonal relations.; Empathy.; Women -- Psychology.; Alienation (Social psychology); Psychotherapist and patient.
Description: Many popular psychology books imply that women are too dependent on their relationships with others. In The Healing Connection, Jean Baker Miller, M.D., author of the best-selling Toward a New Psychology of Women, and Irene Pierce Stiver, Ph.D., argue that the value women often attach to relationships is not misplaced: Relationships are in fact the source of psychological health.

The Healing Connection points to ways of interacting on relationships - whether with family members, friends and colleagues, or therapists - that lead to successful growth and development.

Through vivid examples drawn from their own practice as therapists, Miller and Stiver show how women can learn to experience real connection and to overcome psychological problems. They also outline a new kind of psychotherapy in which the therapist is not a neutral figure, but a participant with emotional responses of her own.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-225) and index.

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