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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Feminist psychotherapy came into existence in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s as a direct outgrowth of the second wave of the Women’s Liberation movement. Women in the United States...
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Feminist Therapy Little White Lies The Mattering Map To Trump, Some Lives Matter
This article emphasizes the importance of considering the history, context and epistemological bases of the use of race and racial categories in North America. Using this contextual grounding, I propose...
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Dr. Kaschak has published the following articles in the Wall Street International Magazine: La Corona or the Crown? From the front lines of World War III The Psychology of Gaslighting, Spinning and Lying Nothing Is Black and White Including People…
Why has it developed and continued? Feminism is the simple belief that all people deserve to be considered equal in all realms. It is the perspective that we allow false...
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What does science really know? Norway has announced the opening of the first psychiatric hospital where medication will not be used as a means of treatment. This experiment should be...
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How sex can become gender and gender sex Feminist therapy began with an understanding of the importance of gender and its distinction from sex and sexuality. Even this distinction is...
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The fluidity of romance and desire As a result of the second and third waves of the feminist movement, many women have felt freer to examine and express their sexuality....
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Dedicated to Nancy, Hillary, Melania and the fashion industry Despite the decades of discussion about the objectification of women’s bodies and appearance, the essence of toxic masculinity continues. Boys are...
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