This is an interesting book. It may be useful for those who have
not followed the debate on the experience of women in psychiatric
services. It provides useful information on ways of working with
more disturbed women. These are women whom psychiatric services
often avoid or at least with whom they do little constructive work.
The emphasis on offering therapy to these women instead of a bed in
an institution was refreshing. --Andrea Bennett in Clinical
Psychology Forum How can counselors and clinicians help empower
women in a sexist, racist, and homophobic society? How can they
help women reclaim their bodies? Or repair their violated bond with
womenkind? Taking feminist therapy one step further, this
enlightening volume focuses on a central problem in our
society--violence against women--and explores practical, feminist
ways of working with women's responses to it: depression, cutting,
splitting, troubled eating, and protest. Radical Feminist Therapy
explores issues that are usually either omitted or pathologized in
generalist feminist counseling texts such as women battered by
their pimps, women who self-mutilate, and psychiatrized women.
Other topics covered are working with lesbians; American Indian,
African American, Jewish, and immigrant women; women with
disabilities; working with heterosexual couples; sexual violation
by therapists; and working with suicidal clients. A list of
recommended readings follows each chapter. Radical Feminist Therapy
addresses the needs of both students and practitioners in the areas
of psychology, counseling, social work, and women's studies who
desire a comprehensive, enlightening text they will refer to again
and again. "Burstow's book should prove very useful as a resource
for practitioners in a wide variety of areas dealing with violence
against women. . . . The first part of the book presents the
theoretical foundations; the remaining 12 chapters integrate theory
and practice. Written from a well-articulated radical feminist
position, the text is grounded in structuralist theory that
situates problems in living within the systematic oppressions of
classism, sexism, and racism. Respect for women and for their right
to make their own decisions in therapy permeates the text."
--Choice "This book fills a gap in the literature addressed by no
other publication I have seen. There are numerous theoretical books
on feminist counseling or therapy. But I have seen nothing which
moves from theory to clear, practical suggestions on what to do and
how to do it when working with women on different problems. Bonnie
begins by presenting a clear feminist framework in which she sees
violence against women in our society as the central problem in all
women's lives. She explains how this core issue plays itself out in
different areas of women's lives and how it is central to the
personal problems women struggle with. She then goes on to give
practical, concrete suggestions about how to actually work with
women in therapy. She warns readers of common pitfalls and how to
avoid them. It is an extremely cohesive and useful piece of work."
--Linda Advokaat, Feminist Counselor, Sessional Instructor,
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada "As a presentation of theory
translated into casework, this is the best I have seen in its
field--a deft integration of politics and philosophy, made relevant
and workable in the chosen context." --Counselling
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