1st Edition
Women, Girls & Psychotherapy Reframing Resistance
280 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
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Adolescent girls’special needs in the teen-age years are thoroughly examined in Women, Girls & Psychotherapy, a compelling book focusing on the vitality of resistance in young girls. Drawing on studies of women’s and girls’development, clinical work with girls and women, and their personal experiences, the voices of adolescent girls are used to reframe and greater understand their... Read more
Contents
Introduction
- Section I: Reframing Resistance
- Women’s Psychological Development: Implication for Psychotherapy
- A Feminist Poetics of Psychotherapy
- Adolescent Girls, Women and Sexuality: Discerning Dilemmas of Desire
- Section II: Strategies of Resistance
- Telling a Girl’s Life: Self-Authorization as a Form of Resistance
- “A Belief in Self Far Greater Than Anyone’s Disbelief”: Cultivating Resistance Among African-American Female Adolescents
- Disavowing the Self in Female Adolescence
- Teen Females in Minnesota: A Portrait of Quiet Disturbance
- Section III: The Centrality of Relationships
- Raising a Resister
- Two-Part Inventions: Knowing What We Know
- The Body at Play
- Coming Out Against All Odds: Resistance in the Life of a Young Lesbian
- Do You Have Eyelashes?
- Section IV: Notes From the Underground
- Adolescent Resistance and the Maladies of Women: Notes From the Underground
- Crossing the Desert Alone: An Etiological Model of Female Adolescent Suicidality
- Working With Adolescent Girls: Strategies to Address Health Status
- When The Body Speaks: Girls, Eating Disorders and Psychotherapy
- Index
- Reference Notes Included
Biography
Gilligan, Carol; Rogers, Annie G; Tolman, Deborah L
