Research Catalog

Title

Psychotherapy for women : treatment toward equality / edited by Edna I. Rawlings, Dianne K. Carter.

Publication

Springfield, Ill. : Thomas, ©1977.

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Additional Authors

• Rawlings, Edna I.
• Carter, Dianne K.

Description

xix, 477 pages; 26 cm

Summary

Presents a collection of 21 papers on the ways in which sexism influences theories and techniques in psychotherapy and methods for helping women develop as complete and equal people. Specific topics include values and value change in psychotherapy, principles of feminist psychotherapy, assertion training, career counseling, psychotherapy for lesbians, feminism as therapy, the challenge of radical feminism to professional therapy, and social activism as therapy.

Subject

• Psychotherapy
• Radical therapy
• Sex discrimination against women
• Social history
• Women
• Psychotherapy
• Social Conditions
• Women
• social history
• women (female humans)
• Social history
• Radical therapy
• Sex discrimination against women
• Frau
• Psychotherapie
• Aufsatzsammlung
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

• SECTION I: INTRODUCTION -- 1. Values and value change in psychotherapy -- 2. Unilateral and reciprocal influence in psychotherapy -- SECTION II: FEMINIST AND NONSEXIST PSYCHOTHERAPY -- 3. Feminist and nonsexist psychotherapy -- 4. Comparative case analyses of sexist and feminist therapies -- SECTION III: NONSEXIST APPROACHES TO PSYCHOTHERAPY FOR WOMEN -- Introduction -- 5. The equitable therapy of women in psychoanalysis / Natalie Shainess -- 6. Gestalt therapy and women / Lois Brien and Cynthia Sheldon -- 7. Shouls this marriage (counseling) be saved? / Robert Seidenberg.
• SECTION IV: ASSERTION TRAINING FOR WOMEN -- Introduction -- 8. Assertive behavior and clinical problems of women / Patricia Ann Jakubowski -- 9. Self-assertion training procedures for women / Patricia Ann Jakubowski -- SECTION V: CAREER COUNSELING AS THERAPY FOR WOMEN -- Introduction -- 10. Career counseling for women / Lenore W. Harmon -- 11. Vocational counseling with women: a nonsexist technique / Cindy Rice Dewey -- 12. Up the management ladder / Theodora Wells -- SECTION VI: PSYCHOTHERAPY FOR LESBIANS -- Introduction -- 13. Lesbians and therapy / Josette Escamilla-Mondanaro -- 14. Psychotherapy with lesbians: some observations and tentative generalizations / Barbara E. Sang.
• SECTION VII: FEMINISM AS THERAPY -- Introduction -- 15. Feminism as therapy / Anica Vesel Mander -- 16. Therapeutic aspects of consciousness-raising groups / Annette M. Brodsky -- 17. Problems of personal change in women's studies courses / Marie Celeste Guzell -- 18. Feminist bibliotherapy-prescription for change: A selected and annotated bibliography / C. Jane Sanders and Dorothy Cox Steward -- SECTION VIII: RADICAL FEMINISM: A CHALLENGE TO PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOTHERAPY -- Introduction -- 19. Radical feminism: a treatment modality for addicted women / Ardelle Poletti Schultz -- 20. Radical psychiatry for women / Hogie Wyckoff -- 21. Radical psychiatry techniques for solving women's problems in group / Hogie Wyckoff.
• SECTION IX: SOCIAL ACTIVISM AS THERAPY -- Introduction -- 22. A dialectical base for an activist approach to counseling / Haraold J. Adams and Leona Durham -- 23. Beyond therapy: personal and institutional change / Norma B. Gluckstern -- SECTION X: EPILOGUE -- 21. Psychotherapy for social change.

ISBN

• 0398035849
• 9780398035846

LCCN

76023165

OCLC

• ocm02331956
• 2331956
• SCSB-274127

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library