Radical Feminist Therapy: Working in the Context of Violence

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 hel

Author: Bonnie Burstow
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Published: 10/08/1992
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.08w x 0.88d
ISBN13: 9780803947887
ISBN10: 0803947887
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Psychotherapy | General
- Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory
- Psychology | Psychopathology | Compulsive Behavior

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