Explaining the difference between gender transitioning and gender fluidity. Human sex differences are binary, as is human reproduction. Sex differences are based in biology and genetics and, at this point...
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Is feminist therapy only for women? Feminist psychotherapy adheres to the carefully researched and well-established fact that gender is a social construct. This means that it is not necessarily related...
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The pressures on young people today. One of the hallmarks of feminist therapy is the insistence that pain not be privatized. First described by the useful and perhaps necessary trope...
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Is Gender Sex and Sex Gender? I want to tread somewhat lightly into controversial territory, but I do want to try to disentangle what has become of late a highly...
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It has become popular among politicians and comedians. Feminist psychology and feminism in general have been at the forefront of the discussion of the dynamics of shame. Shame is used...
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Are mass murderers mentally ill? Are the white supremacist shooters mentally ill? The answer to this question rests on a foundation of observations and cultural assumptions. In reality, the term...
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What is a woman? What is a man? I am among those psychologists and other professionals who introduced the use of the term “gender” into the lexicon of the social...
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Sometimes, forgiveness seems impossible. You, someone close to you or that you loved has been abused, raped or even murdered. You are severely traumatized and are advised that forgiving the...
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Many contributions to this work from several of the people in this room, from diverse scholars in the areas of constructivism and quantum theory, neuroscience and genetics, phenomenology and noetics, feminist and multi-cultural psychologies. Like many of them, I am…
Abstract This article describes and elaborates upon the theoretical model of the Mattering Map, initially introduced in Engendered Lives: A New Psychology of Women's Experience (Kaschak, 1992). This model organizes...
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