Women Changing Therapy: New Assessments, Values, And Strategies In Feminist Therapy

268 Pages·1983·59.6 MB·English

by  Joan H. Robbins, Rachel Josefowitz Siegel

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W o m e n
Changing
T h e r a p y
New Assessme1 .ts, Values and Strategies
in Feminist Therapy

o m e n
Changing
T h e r a p y
Ne\v Assessments, Values and Strategies
in Feminist Therapy
Editors
Joan Hamerman Robbins
Rachel Josefowitz Siegel
The Haworth Press
New York
Women Changing Therapy: New Assessments, Values and Strategies in Feminist Therapy has
also been published as Women & Therapy, Volume 2, Numbers 2/3, Summer/Fall 1983.
Copyright © 1983 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved. Copies of articles in this
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Main entry under title:
Women changing therapy.
" Has also been published as Women & therapy, volume 2, numbers 2/3, summer/fall
1983''-T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographies.
I. Feminist therapy. 2. Women-Mental health.
I. Robbins, Joan Hamerman. ll. Siegel, Rachel Josefowitz. [DNLM: I. Psychotherapy.
2. Women-Psychology. 3. Women's rights. WI W0433V v.2 no.2/3
WM 420 W8725]
RC489.F45W65 1983 616.89' 14'088042 83-12643
ISBN 0-86656-239-7
ISBN 0-86656-240-0 (pbk.)
In memory of my mother
Frieda Shur Josefowitz
and
for my daughter Rebecca Robbins
who continues to grapple with the
expanded possibilities that are
now a woman's life.

Women Changing Therapy
New Assessments, Values and Strategies in Feminist Therapy
Women & Therapy
Volume 2, Numbers 2/3
CONTENTS
Foreword
Xlll
Betts Collett
Preface xv
Rachel Josefowitz Siegel
Joan Hamerman Robbins
WOMEN'S ISSUES: NEW ASSESSMENTS 1
The Necessity of Conflict 3
Jean Baker Miller
The Double Bind: Healing the Split I I
Jessica Heriot
Women and Anger in Psychotherapy 29
Alexandra G. Kaplan
Barbara Brooks
Anne L. McComb
Ester R. Shapiro
Andrea Sodano
A Legacy of Weakness 41
Joan Ham.ennan Robbins
Between Women: Lowering the Barriers 51
Paula J. Caplan
Breaking In: Experiences in Male-Dominated Professions 67
Beth Milwid
The Consequences of Abortion Legislation 81
Marjorie Braude
VALUING OUR SELVES 91
Message from Antarctica 93
Anonymous
Change and Creativity at Midlife 95
Rachel Josefowitz Siegel
Openings 103
Sandra Butler
Hispanic Women: Stress and Mental Health Issues 113
Guadalupe Gibson
Black Women: A Tradition of Self-Reliant Strength 135
Christine Renee Robinson
A Lesbian Perspective 145
Jane Mara
NEW STRATEGIES IN FEMINIST THERAPY 157
Complex Triangles: Uncovering Sexist Bias
in Relationship Counseling 159
Joan Hamerman Robbins
Accumulated Inequalities: Problems in Long-Term
Marriages 171
Rachel J osefowitz Siegel
The Role of Politics in Feminist Counseling 179
Sue Kirk
Women in Interracial Relationships 191
Janette Faulkner