Psychotherapy with Women: Feminist Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780333609743 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 240 str.

Marilyn Lawrence;Marie Maguire

Opis

Psychotherapy with Women provides a clear account of current feminist practice in working with women within the helping professions bringing together contributions from eminent women psychotherapists. A wide range of issues are explored including sexuality, ageing, family dynamics, disability and ethnicity. It will appeal to students studying social work, nursing, psychology and counselling as well as to a wide range of practitioners working in the caring professions.

Spis treści

Foreword; S.Einhorn.- Introduction.- The Therapy Relationship; S.Ernst.- Women's Development in the Family; S.Orbach.- Women's Relationship with their Bodies; P.Land.- Envy Between Women; M.Maguire.- Fantasies and Problematics of Identity; J.Ryan.- Time Limited Psychotherapy; C.Mohamed & R.Smith.- Working with Black Women; C.Mohamed & R.Smith.- Working with Adult Incest Survivors; S.Krzowski.- W is for Women; V.Sinason.- Working with Older Women; B.Daniel.- Managing Anxiety and the Practitioner Role; T.Weeramanthri.

O autorze

MARILYN LAWRENCE is an associate member of the British Psychoanalytical Society, working at the Tavistock Clinic, London, and in private practice. Her published works include The Anorexic Experience, Fed Up and Hungry, and, with Mira Dana, Women's Secret Disorder and Fighting Food.

MARIE MAGUIRE is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice who teaches at the Guild of Psychotherapists and other psychotherapy training organisations. Previously she worked in community mental health projects and at the Women's Therapy Centre, London. She is the editor of Living with the Sphinx (with Sheila Ernst) and the author of Men, Women, Passion and Power: Gender Issues in Psychotherapy.