Gender and Power in Families

ISBN-13: 9781780490656 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 298 str.

Opis

Behind the systems approach to the family lie the hidden assumptions that men and women are equal within the family structure and that women and men are treated equally in clinical practice. Gender and Power in Families challenges these assumptions, presenting both a conceptual discussion of the subject and a review of the clinical practice. The contributors, all experienced therapists who work with women in a variety of public health and social service settings, re-examine the position of women and men in families and in family therapy. Drawing on their work with women from varied social amd ethnic backgrounds, the authors look at the issues as they relate to women who have suffered sexual abuse as children, and women struggling to bring up children alone or with partners with whom they are in perpetual conflict. They also explore the problems of women who are deemed mentally handicapped, women who are first-generation immigrants, and black women, who are marginalized and oppressed by race and class combined with gender. Gender and Power in Families looks closely at the family in its wider social context, arguing that the issues of gender and power are central to family therapy, training and practice.

Spis treści

Preface to the 2011 Edition -- Introduction I -- Introduction II -- Conceptual Frameworks -- A feminist perspective in family therapy -- Equality, asymmetry, and diversity: on conceptualizations of gender -- Strategies of Intervention -- Feminism and family therapy: can mixed marriages work? -- Feminism and strategic therapy: contradiction or complementarity? -- The struggle towards a feminist practice in family therapy: premisses -- The struggle towards a feminist practice in family therapy: practice -- Applications: Specific Clinical Issues -- The mother-daughter relationship and the distortion of reality in childhood sexual abuse -- Intelligence, achievement, and gender: the ramifications of a case-study -- Working with women in families -- What About Men? -- The place of men in a gender-sensitive therapy -- Masculinity and family work -- Applications: Wider Systems -- 'The little woman' and the world of work -- Why a group for women only? -- Psychotherapy, oppression and social action: gender, race, and class in black women's depression

O autorze

Ann Miller is a consultant clinical psychologist and family therapist who has worked and taught at the Marlborough Family Service in London for most of her career. She was instrumental, with others, in setting up the University College London Diploma in Family Therapy, which provided a non-traditional pathway into the profession, and in creating the Marlborough Cultural Therapy Centre, successfully providing a therapeutic service since 1995 for black and minority ethnic individuals, children and families who would otherwise have not engaged with services. Rosine Jozef Perelberg, PhD, is a Fellow and Training Analyst of the British Psychoanalytic Society, Visiting Professor in the Psychoanalysis Unit at University College London, and Corresponding Member of the Paris Psychoanalytical Society. She edited 'Gender and Power in Families' (with Ann Miller); 'Psychoanalytic Understanding of Violence and Suicide'; 'Female Experience: Four Generations of British Women Psychoanalysts on Work with Women' (with Joan Raphael-Leff); 'Freud: A Modern Reader'; 'Time and Memory'; and 'Dreaming and Thinking'. She is the author of 'Time, Space and Phantasy' and 'Murdered Father, Dead Father: Revisiting the Oedipus Complex' (2015). In 2007 she was named one of the ten women of the year by the Brazilian National Council of Women.