Women, Feminism and Family Therapy

Women, Feminism and Family Therapy encourages sensitivity to feminist perspectives and challenges many traditional notions held by therapists, clients, and society. One of the few guides that takes into account feminist ideals and the changing status of women in society, this provocative new book explores a feminist approach to theory, clinical applications, training, and supervision in family therapy. Topics in this exciting and though-provoking book include women in alcoholic families, women and abuse in the family context, lesbian daughters and mothers, and women and eating disorders. Editor Lois Braverman and the other expert contributors are practicing psychotherapists who have struggled with the problems of integrating a feminist perspective with the practice of family therapy. Their discussions--both theoretical and practical in scope--provide professionals with actual treament interventions, as well as a frank discussion of theoretical dilemmas.

Lois Braverman

Part 1 EDITORIAL NOTE; Part 2 INTRODUCTION AND LITERATURE REVIEW; Chapter 1 Feminism and Family Therapy: Friends or Foes, Lois Braverman; Chapter 2 Deepening Awareness: A Private Study Guide to Feminism and Family Therapy, Judith Myers Avis; Part 3 THEORETICAL ISSUES; Chapter 3 Is Family Systems Theory Really Systemic? A Feminist Communication, Harriet Goldhor Lerner; Chapter 4 Enmeshment, Fusion or Relatedness? A Conceptual Analysis, Michele Bograd; Part 4 CLINICAL APPLICATIONS; Chapter 5 Women and Abuse in the Context of the Family, Margaret Cotroneo; Chapter 6 Female Legacies: Intergenerational Themes and Their Treatment for Women in Alcoholic Families, Claudia Bepko; Chapter 7 Lesbian Daughters and Lesbian Mothers: The Crisis of Disclosure from a Family Systems Perspective, Jo-Ann Krestan; Chapter 8 Women and Eating Disorders, Richard C. Schwartz, Mary Jo Barrett; Chapter 9 Women, Family Therapy, and Larger Systems, Linda Webb-Watson; Chapter 10 Women, Rituals, and Family Therapy, Joan Laird, Ann Hartman; Part 5 TRAINING AND SUPERVISION ISSUES; Chapter 11 Teaching an Integrated Model of Family Therapy: Women as Students, Women as Supervisors, Marianne Ault-Riché;