Cultural Resistance: Challenging Beliefs About Men, Women, and Therapy

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In everyday life--in relationships, in various institutions, in texts--cultural premises influence and sometimes limit individuals’thoughts, actions, and ideas. Cultural Resistance: Challenging Beliefs About Men, Women, and Therapy analyzes cultural constraints and encourages therapists, individuals, and communities to practice cultural resistance on a daily basis, allowing for the... Read more

In everyday life--in relationships, in various institutions, in texts--cultural premises influence and sometimes limit individuals’thoughts, actions, and ideas. Cultural Resistance: Challenging Beliefs About Men, Women, and Therapy analyzes cultural constraints and encourages therapists, individuals, and communities to practice cultural resistance on a daily basis, allowing for the realization of diverse and suppressed knowledges.

Cultural Resistance shows general patterns by which some ideas in a culture become accepted and others are marginalized. It proposes ways individuals and communities can resist the hold of limiting ideas on their lives. In the postmodern tradition, Editor Kathy Weingarten brings together authors who ask and offer answers to the question, “What is not present in our thinking?” Each chapter invites therapists to extend their thinking about the scope of their work. Topics covered include:

challenging cultural beliefs about mothers
transforming masculine identities
lesbian and gay parents
a narrative approach to anorexia/bulimia
perspectives on the Black woman and sexual trauma, focusing on Thomas v. Hill
opening therapy to conversations with a personal god
new conversations on controversial issues

The chapters in Cultural Resistance first describe cultural premises that constrain the lives of women, men, and/or therapists and then develop an approach to resisting these constraints. A response follows each chapter in an effort to promote discourse, extend meanings, and encourage learning between professionals.

Cultural Resistance yields new perspectives on the nature of social change and the relationships between individuals and culture. It offers valuable insights to family therapists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers who want to broaden their thinking and approach. It gives therapists a fresh, new way of thinking about themselves, others, and their conversations through applications which may be professional, personal, or both.

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Radical Listening: Challenging Cultural Beliefs for and About Mothers
Out of Objectification: Comment on Kathy Weingarten’s “Radical Listening: Challenging Cultural Beliefs for and About Mothers”
Fathering Our Sons; Refathering Ourselves: Some Thoughts on Transforming Masculine Legacies
Boys Will be Men: A Response to Terry Real’s Paper
Lesbian and Gay Parents: From Margin to Center
Response to Laura Benkov, “Lesbian and Gay Parents: From Margin to Center”
A Narrative Approach to So-Called Anorexia/Bulimia
A Letter to David Epston
Beach Glass
The Discourse on Thomas v. Hill: A Resource for Perspectives on the Black Woman and Sexual Trauma
The Hill/Thomas Debate as Source for Understanding the Black Woman and Sexual Trauma: A Response
Opening Therapy to Conversations With a Personal God
Response to “Opening Therapy to Conversations With a Personal God”
From Stuck Debate to New Conversation on Controversial Issues: A Report From the Public Conversations Project
Commentary on “From Stuck Debate to New Conversation on Controversial Issues: A Report From the Public Conversations Project
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Kaethe Weingarten

Cultural Resistance Challenging Beliefs About Men, Women, and Therapy

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