Feminist Therapy as a Political Act

by Marcia Hill

Overview

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, or community setting. You’ll discover the rich variety of ways in which therapists politicize the therapy relationship, setting, assumptions, techniques, and dialogues, and find several examples on how to incorporate political consciousness into your sessions. Feminist Therapy as a Political Act gives you insight into several methods and practices, including:

• integrating specific therapy techniques and the background dialogue of therapy into principles of feminist therapy practices
• modifying cognitive-behavioral therapy, hypnosis, and other therapy techniques to make them more compatible with feminist principles
• redefining and reclaiming empowerment for conducting political analysis in feminist psychotherapy
• recognizing client identity, including race, gender, and sexual identity, to provide clients with better therapy
• providing information on Japanese feminist counseling in relation to Eastern thought, the women’s liberation movement, and the concepts of independence, dependence, and maternity
• discussing the challenges of working with men
  
  Contributors to Feminist Therapy as a Political Act give you insight into the profession on the international level, for example, examining the challenges to feminist therapists in Japan and describing how survivors of incest and sexual abuse in Israel “went public” with their ordeals through art, poetry, performances, and lectures. Offering diverse methods, techniques, and suggestions that will help you provide better services for your clients, Feminist Therapy as a Political Act also gives you the knowledge and inspiration to make your therapeutic work a political act.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317790150
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/12/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	129
Sales rank:	918,858
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Marcia Hill

Table of Contents

Contents Preface

• Making Therapy Feminist: A Practice Survey
• Putting Politics into Practice: Feminist Therapy as Feminist Praxis
• Feminist Therapy: Integrating Political Analysis in Counseling and Psychotherapy
• Contextual Identity: A Model for Therapy and Social Change
• Japanese Feminist Counseling as a Political Act
• Politicizing Survivors of Incest and Sexual Abuse: Another Facet of Healing
• Border Crossing and Living Our Contradictions: Letters Between Two Feminist Therapists About Doing Therapy with Men
• Fostering Resistance Through Relationships in a Feminist Hospital Program
• Tools For Change: Methods of Incorporating Political/Social Action into the Therapy Session
• Index

Editorial Reviews

In nine essays, international feminist therapists and academics explore the integration of feminist political/social thought and praxis in the counseling/ psychotherapy context. Especially noteworthy are the essays on Japanese feminist counseling, a hospital-based feminist women's program, and the "living our contradictions" letters about doing therapy with men. Co-published simultaneously as , v.21, no.2, 1998. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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