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feminist therapy |
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feminist therapy, an alternative therapy that is both a philosophic approach to the conduct of therapy and a specific type of therapy. The focus of both types is a consciousness raising that focuses on the presence of sexism and sex role stereotyping in society. feminist therapy Psychiatry Psychotherapy that incorporates feminist/women's rights–I am woman, HEAR ME ROAR–philosophy into therapeutic goals; FT attempts to empower ♀ and battle societal barriers to
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| Feminist therapy challenges the authoritarian, patriarchal approaches of traditional psychotherapy that tend to reinforce women's sense of dependency and inadequacy, to treat women's unhappiness as pathology and illness, and to make adjustment[s] to traditional roles the goal of treatment for women. Back in 1985 Elaine Showalter, a Princeton English professor specializing in the social history of mental health, concluded her critique of the traditional psychotherapy profession by proclaiming: "The best hope for the future is the feminist therapy movement. |
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