Feminism and Psychotherapy: Reflections on Contemporary Theories and Practices

✍ Scribed by Colleen Heenan (editor); Bruna Seu (editor)

• Publisher: SAGE
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 246
• Series: Perspectives on Psychotherapy
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

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

✦ Subjects

feminist, therapy, race, jung, theoretical framework, agency