Female authority; empowering women through psychotherapy

[By] Polly Young-Eisendrath [and] Florence L. Wiedemann.

1. Introduction. 2. Conflict as identity: why a woman can't be more like a man. 3. Basic considerations: competence, feminism, and Jung. 4. The animus and I: a model for psychotherapy with women. 5. Stage one: animus as alien outsider. 6. Stage two: animus as father, God, or king. 7. Stage three: romancing the hero. 8. Stages four and five: restoration of authority. 9. Pandora: identity relationship in adulthood. 10. Pandora: transcript, conclusions, and epilogue. 11. Heroic complex of the death marriage: a case of transforming childhood sexual abuse. 12. New texts and contexts for female development

[The authors] break with the tradition of "deficit thinking," the examination of what is absent, wrong, or deficient. Recognizing this as a fundamental barrier to the empowerment of women, they work instead from an understanding of what is already strong and satisfying in the lives of women and girls in a patriarchal society.

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