Women, Feminism and Family Therapy

Few, if any, guides to family therapy take into account feminist ideals and the changing status of women in society. Yet, how do current concepts and practices of family therapy appear from a feminist perspective? Editor Lois Braverman and the contributors explore a feminist approach to theory, clinical applications, training, and supervision in family therapy. Topics include women in alcoholic families, women and abuse in the family context, lesbian daughters and mothers, and women and eating disorders.

Lois Braverman

Contents Feminism and Family Therapy: Friends or Foes - Deepening Awareness: A Private Study Guide to Feminism and Family Therapy - Is Family Systems Theory Really Systemic? A Feminist Communication - Enmeshment, Fusion, or Relatedness: A Conceptual Analysis - Women and Abuse in the Context of the Family - Female Legacies: Intergenerational Themes and Their Treatment for Women in Alcoholic Families - Lesbian Daughters and Lesbian Mothers: The Crisis of Disclosure From a Family Systems Perspective - Women and Eating Disorders - Women, Family Therapy and Larger Systems - Women, Rituals, and Family Therapy - Teaching an Integrated Model of Family Therapy: Women as Students, Women as Supervisors