Radical Feminist Therapy - Working in the Context of Violence

Klappentext With an emphasis on violence against women and on women's responses to it - such as depression, splitting and eating disturbances - this volume furthers the radicalization of feminist therapy. It serves as a comprehensive introduction for trainees and as an ongoing resource for social service workers and therapists. Providing detailed and grounded guidance, the author examines feminist approaches to working with women and discusses issues often omitted or pathologized in general feminist counselling texts, including prostitutes battered by pimps and self-mutilation. She explores such central questions as how women can empower themselves in a sexist society; what forms internalized oppression takes and how clients can be helped to address these internalizations; and how women can be helped to reclaim their bodies. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Radical Feminist Foundations Psychiatry Basics and Beginnings General Empowerment Work Difference Working With Lesbians; Native Women; African American Women; Jewish Women; Immigrant Women; Women with Disabilities Problematic Territory Heterosexual Couples; The Family Working With Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse, and the Special Situation of Ritual Abuse Extreme Partner Abuse Where the Partner is Male Other Extreme Violation in Adulthood Working with Women Subjected to Extreme Partner Abuse Where the Partner is a Woman; Abuse by Pimps; Extreme Sexual Abuse in Adulthood: Stranger Rape and Date Rape; Sexual Violation by Therapists Self-Mutilation Troubled Eating Anorexia; Bulimia; `Over¿weight/`Over¿eating Drinking Problems Working With Psychiatric Survivors Clients Who Are Considering Ending Their Lives

Product details

• Authors: Bonnie Burstow, Bonnie Burstow, Burstow Bonnie
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.11.1992
• EAN: 9780803947887
• ISBN: 978-0-8039-4788-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Social welfare & social services, Feminism & feminist theory, Social welfare and social services, Feminism and feminist theory, Counseling & Psychotherapy