Addresses some of the assumptions and omissions of traditional couples therapy regarding issues of race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation, and describes a variety of feminist approaches to couples therapy. For psychologists, social workers, marriage and family counselors, and therapists, as well as students in the helping professions. Paper editio

Feminist therapy has been challenging mainstream therapy thinking and practice for the past thirty years. The Foundation and Future of Feminist Therapy is the first book to provide a summary and compilation of that history. It describes the work of the major contributors, early and recent, and gives an essential overview of the rich and radical development of feminist therapy. This book breaks new ground by envisioning a feminist-informed future in the areas of therapy practice, the education of therapists, and community.

Feminist therapy has been challenging mainstream therapy thinking and practice for the past thirty years. The Foundation and Future of Feminist Therapy is the first book to provide a summary and compilation of that history. It describes the work of the major contributors, early and recent, and gives an essential overview of the rich and radical development of feminist therapy. This book breaks new ground by envisioning a feminist-informed future in the areas of therapy practice, the education of therapists, and community.

Feminist Therapy as a Political Act explores what is means to politicize therapy and how you can make pyschotherapy a method for creating social and individual change. You ll find examples and strategies for discussing topics such as empowerment and identity that allow you to provide better services to clients while learning new ideas and methods of feminist therapy.

Examining how language, behavior, and political thinking influence therapeutic methods, Feminist Therapy as a Political Act contains suggestions and examples that can be applied to clients in the individual, hospital,...

If you re a long-time veteran of feminist therapy or someone just starting out, you ll find a helpful, reliable list of "dos" and "don ts" in Learning from Our Mistakes: Difficulties and Failures in Feminist Therapy. Frank and honest in tone, makeup, and style, this one-of-a-kind publication looks at the failures and roadblocks that have hampered feminist therapists in the past so you can learn from their misfortunes and avoid them in your own professional endeavors.

In Learning from Our Mistakes, you ll come face-to-face with classic difficult cases, and you ll see from a feminist...

If you?re a long-time veteran of feminist therapy or someone just starting out, you?ll find a helpful, reliable list of dos and don?ts in Learning from Our Mistakes: Difficulties and Failures in Feminist Therapy. Frank and honest in tone, makeup, and style, this one-of-a-kind publication looks at the failures and roadblocks that have hampered feminist therapists in the past so you can learn from their misfortunes and avoid them in your own professional endeavors. In Learning from Our Mistakes, you?ll come face-to-face with classic difficult cases, and you?ll see from a feminist perspective...

Realize how you can charge what your services are worth and still care about your clients

For Love or Money: The Fee in Feminist Therapy examines the rarely talked about topic of payment in therapy, taking a symbolic and psychological look at the meaning of fees to both the psychologist and client. This intelligent book offers firsthand advice and information concerning how gender can make a difference in your feelings about fees and how the managed care environment affects women clients. For Love or Money will help you handle your concerns about fees as it discusses payment for...

Realize how you can charge what your services are worth and still care about your clients

For Love or Money: The Fee in Feminist Therapy examines the rarely talked about topic of payment in therapy, taking a symbolic and psychological look at the meaning of fees to both the psychologist and client. This intelligent book offers firsthand advice and information concerning how gender can make a difference in your feelings about fees and how the managed care environment affects women clients. For Love or Money will help you handle your concerns about fees as it discusses payment for...

Hill, a psychologist in private practice, chronicles more than a decade of her thoughts and feelings about practicing therapy in rural Vermont. From liberating breakthroughs to personal anguish, she reveals her feelings on the work she does and reflects on the lessons she's learned from her clients. There is no subject index. Annotation 2004 Book N

A response to anyone who has ever wondered about a therapist, and offering a glimpse into what it is like on the other side of the couch.