A New Approach to Women & Therapy

By Miriam Greenspan

Book Overview

Writing for a broad range of readers interested in psychotherapy & women's issues, Greenspan tells of her own experiences in therapy & those of many of her patients. These stories clearly illustrate how treatment approaches based on traditional male attitudes pathologize & devalue women. This highly readable, detailed, & critical study does more than expose the failures of male-biased psychotherapy-it offers a positive alternative treatment model which recognizes women's emotional pain & is based on an empowering therapeutic relationship. Greenspan gives several case examples of feminist treatment techniques, explaining the rationale behind each & assisting readers in the search for a therapist who subscribes to them. In her exciting new introduction, & dangers of the codependency recovery movement for women's psychological healing, & a new vision of feminist therapy as a means of bringing about planetary healing.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0070243492
• ISBN13: 9780070243491
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 355 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.