Feminism & Psychotherapy

Reflections on Contemporary Theories and Practices

Irene Bruna Seu, Colleen Heenan (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

1998
SAGE Publications Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7619-5191-9 (ISBN)

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A deconstruction of the theory and practice of feminist therapy in contemporary society. Practitioners challenge the view that one model of therapy or feminism can be elevated above the rest. Whilst celebrating feminist therapy, the book also sees it as problematic.

The central question that Seu and Heenan have posed to contributors to this book is to explore critically how their feminist beliefs, understandings and commitments inform their work as psychotherapeutic practitioners and researchers. What we are offered is a multiplicity of feminist and psychotherapeutic narratives... The book raises a very serious issue about the nature of the feminist project within psychotherapy... The editors and contributors have created a brave book which articulates the dilemmas of feminist thought and practice within the contexts of therapeutic engagement′ - British Journal of Guidance and Counselling

Challenging the notion that one model of therapy or one model of feminism can be privileged above others, this volume reflects on the complexities and multiple dimensions of theory and practice in contemporary feminist psychotherapies.

Practitioners and researchers representing a broad cross-section of viewpoints critically consider their feminist therapeutic frameworks to address from within the practice the ways in which feminist therapy has set gender above and beyond other social inequalities. Drawing on case material from clinical practice, as well as research on feminism and psychotherapy, the authors demonstrate how the tensions inherent in different therapeutic models and feminist beliefs both question and reinforce popular notions of `gender′ and `woman′.

I. Bruna Seu is a lecturer in the Department of Human Sciences at Brunel University and a psychotherapist in private practice. M. Colleen Heenan is also a psychotherapist in private practice and university lecturer.

Introduction - M Colleen Heenan and I Bruna Seu
Power and Agency in Feminist Therapy - Jeanne Marecek and Diane Kravetz
Narrative Therapy, Feminism and Race - Vanessa Swan
Which Women? What Feminism? - Aileen Alleyne
Feminist Psychotherapy and Sexual Abuse - Moira Walker
Empowerment and the Eating-Disordered Client - Robin Sesan and Melanie Katzman
Feminist Object Relations Theory and Therapy - M Colleen Heenan
Psychotherapy and Working-Class Women - Pamela Trevithick
The Rhythm Model - Jocelyn Chaplin
The Creative Feminine - Tessa Adams
Kristeva and the Maternal Body
Jung, the Transference and the Psychological Feminine - Joy Schaverien
A Feminist Systemic Therapy? - Elsa Jones
Change and Theoretical Frameworks - I Bruna Seu
Conclusion - M Colleen Heenan and I Bruna Seu
Questions, Answers and Absences in Feminist Psychotherapies

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.3.1998
Reihe/Serie	Perspectives on Psychotherapy series
Verlagsort	Thousand Oaks
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	380 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7619-5191-1 / 0761951911
ISBN-13	978-0-7619-5191-9 / 9780761951919
Zustand	Neuware