Women's growth in connection : writings from the Stone Center

Introduction. Part 1 - A developmental perspective. 1 The development of women's sense of self - Jean Baker Miller. 2 Women and empathy: implications for psychological development and psychotherapy - Judith V. Jordan, Janet L. Surrey, Alexandra G. Kaplan. 3 The "self-in-relation": a theory of women's development - Janet L. Surrey. 4 Empathy and self boundaries - Judith V. Jordan. 5 The meaning of mutuality - Judith V. Jordan. 6 Beyond the Oedipus complex: mothers and daughters - Irene P. Stiver. 7 Women's self development in late adolescence - Alexandra G. Kaplan, Rona Klein, Nancy Gleason. Part 2 - Applications. 8 The meanings of "dependency" in female-male relationships - Irene P. Stiver. 9 Relationship and empowerment - Janet L. Surrey. 10 The construction of anger in women and men - Jean Baker Miller. 11 Women and power - Jean Baker Miller. 12 The "self-in-relation" - implications for depression in women - Alexandra G. Kaplan. 13 Work inhibitions in women - Irene P. Stiver. 14 Eating patterns as a reflection of women's development - Janet L. Surrey. 15 The meaning of care: reframing treatment models - Irene P. Stiver. 16 Female or male therapists for women: new formulations - Alexandra G. Kaplan. 17 Empathy, mutuality and therapeutic change: clinical implications of a relational model -Judith V. Jordan

'The ideas represented in this book have evolved over a period of years, as the authors have worked to articulate a perspective on women's development that more accurately reflects women's experience. We initially came together in a group to explore issues in the clinical treatment of women. We realized that through years of supervision and then working in traditional clinical settings we had often developed a sense that what we were doing in the privacy of our therapeutic sessions did not match what colleagues and books were propounding about the ideal conduct of therapy....We were troubled not only by the obvious misunderstandings such as "penis envy," but also by the more pervasive and insidious application to women of models of development inspired by a male culture; these theories consistently mislabeled women as deficient....' --Preface

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