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Women and Psychotherapy

1982; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 11; Issue: 1-2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/00207411.1982.11448911

1557-9328

W Stock, Jean Graubert, Beverly Birns,

Coaching Methods and Impact

The current wave of feminism in the United States, which has grown out of the civil rights movement of the '60s, has had a major impact on the psychotherapy of women. Large numbers of women in the United States came to realize that while they were struggling for the equality of all people, their own contributions and talents were being relegated to second-class status. Slogans such as Make policy, not coffee indicated that women were challenging the gender definitions that limited their participation in social change to those functions always granted them: supporting the efforts of men by being the helpers. Once the movement gained momentum, women began to question not only their role in the civil rights movement but their relationship to аЛ social institutions: marriage, religion, education, and psychiatry, among others. The earliest of the feminists* attacks on the traditional views of