From Menarche to Menopause: The Female Body in Feminist Therapy

ISBN-13: 9780789023490 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 230 str.

Joan C. Chrisler

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From Menarche to Menopause: The Female Body in Feminist Therapy examines the latest research on the menstrual cycle and women's reproductive health. This timely volume focuses on women in therapy who are disconnected from or even repelled by their own bodies due to cultural attitudes, abuse, trauma, or the natural aging process. Experts in the fields of psychology and women's health unite to celebrate the physical life stages of women and girls and to offer practical advice for therapists to use when addressing negativity caused by appearance, age, menstrual symptoms, or reproductive concerns. In this book, you will gain new understanding about the effects on a woman's mental health that transitional life stages can cause, from preadolescence through the childbearing years to menopause. The suggestions in From Menarche to Menopause can help women resist the bombardment of negative messages and misleading information they receive about their bodies and their reproductive concerns. This helpful resource can also assist you in opening new lines of communication between mothers and daughter, women and men, and women and other women.From Menarche to Menopause discusses how to handle topics such as: self-loathing caused by media and cultural messages that affect women's acceptance of their bodies overcoming a daughter's reluctance to discuss sensitive topics of bodily maturation, menstruation, and emerging sexual development helping women, men, and couples cope with infertility assisting women in overcoming a disappointing birth experience providing therapeutic care to women and couples who experience perinatal loss addressing perimenopause in midlife women and the concerns, negative attitudes, and uncertainty of this transition This unique book fills the gap in feminist therapy literature with practical advice concerning the functions of women's bodies that can be used within the therapy context. From Menarche to Menopause includes extensive references and several book reviews to further your research and provide reading and other resources you can recommend to your clients.This practical resource on women's reproductive health as it relates to mental health is an important addition to the bookshelves of feminist psychologists, clinical practitioners, social workers, and health practitioners as well as faculty and students of these disciplines.

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Introduction
Self-Objectification and That “Not So Fresh Feeling”: Feminist Therapeutic Interventions for Healthy Female Embodiment
Making Menarche Positive and Powerful for Both Mother and Daughter
Negative Attitudes Toward Menstruation: Implications for Disconnection Within Girls and Between Women
The Debate About PMDD and Sarafem: Suggestions for Therapists
Abortion and Mental Health: What Therapists Need to Know
Psychological Issues and Interventions with Infertile Patients
The Aftermath of Pregnancy Loss: A Feminist Critique of the Literature and Implications for Treatment
The Use of Rituals in Grieving for a Miscarriage or Stillbirth
Psychological Issues in Childbirth: Potential Roles for Psychotherapists
Myths and Mates in Childbearing Depression
Coping with Distress During Perimenopause
Facing the Unknown: Social Support During the Menopausal Transition
BOOK REVIEWS
Is Menstruation Obsolete? , by E. M. Coutinho and S. J. Segal
The Curse: Confronting the Last Unmentionable Taboo—Menstruation , by K. Houppert
Before She Gets Her Period: Talking with Your Daughter About Menstruation , by J. B. Gillooly
Period: A Girl’s Guide , by J. Loulan and B. Worthen
Index
Reference Notes Included

O autorze

Chrisler, Joan