Voices of Feminist Therapy
By: Elizabeth Friar Williams
Edition: First edition.
Series: Psychology Revivals
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9781315673646
Subjects: Feminist therapy; Case studies; Women and psychoanalysis; Thérapie féministe; Études de cas; Femmes et psychanalyse; SOCIAL SCIENCE; Feminism & Feminist Theory
Description: "Feminist therapy was created in the late 1960s, concurrent with the founding of The Association for Women in Psychology. Its early practitioners had diverse lifestyles, backgrounds, and often unconventional training, but all had a common and radical goal of providing an alternative therapy for women whose mental health was still defined in terms of male-pleasing behaviours and rigid social roles. Originally published in 1995, the contributors share the personal experiences and reflections that helped them revolutionize therapy for women, particularly poignant and instructive at the time, as psychotherapy evolved from client-centred and individualistic to bureaucratic and socially and politically conservative."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Part, I Radical Roots --; title: chapter 1 The Radical Edge: Feminist Therapy as Political Activism  -- Sarah F. Pearlman; title: chapter 2 From Chicago to Rainbow Bridge: In Search of Changing Woman  -- Joan Saks Berman; title: chapter 3 Looking Backward, Moving Forward  -- Jeanne Adleman; title: part, II Feminist Therapists and their Organizations --; title: chapter 4 Going Around in Circles and Coming Out in the Same Place and Different Places--My Development As a Feminist Therapist  -- Barbara E. Sang; title: chapter 5 Finding a Home in Feminist Therapy  -- Doris Howard; title: part, III The Early Experiences of Feminist Therapists --; title: chapter 6 Making Changes  -- Joan Hamerman Robbins; title: chapter 7 My Story as a Feminist Therapist  -- Elizabeth Friar Williams; title: chapter 8 How I Became a Feminist Therapist  -- Ida P. Truscott; title: part, IV Being Our Own Models and Inventing the Therapy Our Clients Need --; title: chapter 9 Feminist Therapy  -- Lee Johnson-Kaufmann; title: chapter 10 Feminist and Multi-Cultural Therapy  -- Maria Fadli; title: chapter 11 A View from the Prairie  -- Ann McClenahan; title: part, V Transitions --; title: chapter 12 My Symphony  -- Kayla Miriyam Weiner; title: chapter 13 The Natural History of a Feminist Therapy  -- Adrienne J. Smith; title: chapter 14 The Paradox of One-to-One Therapy: A Personal Feminist History -- Polly Taylor.