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Another Look at Feminist Therapy

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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To Be Young and Unhappy

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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Important Questions About Gender and Gender Transition

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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What Is Shame?

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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What Is Mental Illness and Who Has It?

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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Gender and Transgender

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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What If You Can’t Forgive?

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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The Mattering Map: Integrating the Complexities of Knowledge, Experience and Meaning

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…

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The Mattering Map: Confluence and Influence

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 Approaches To Psychotherapy

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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