Healing Voices: Feminist Approaches to Therapy with Women PDF
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TONI ANN LAIDLAW, CHERYL MALMO AND ASSOCIATES FEMINIST APPROACHES TO THERAPY WITH WOMEN A publication in THE JOSSEY-BASS SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE SERIES In this comprehensive book, the authors provide a rich variety of innovative techniques - including guided imagery, role-playing, storytelling, music, hypnosis, and massage that therapists can ltse to help women identify and express feelings, understand the meaning of their experiences, and discover and use their own inner resources, or "voices;' to find solu tions to problems and lead more fulfilling lives. The authors reveal, for example, how many women's preoccupation with food and dieting and the related prevalence of anorexia and bulimia-is linked to popular but harmful ideas about how women should look and act. They explain how therapists can use consciousness raising exercises, visualization, and other meth ods to help clients examine these ideas, under stand why they develop eating disorders, learn to accept themselves, and change unhealthy behavior patterns. And the authors detail how to organize and run successful workshops, support groups, and individual and group therapy ses sions designed to overcome the limitations of traditional therapy and help today's women solve the problems they face. To illustrate how feminist therapy works in actual practice, each chapter includes a client's personal account of therapy, describing in her own words and insights the process through which therapist and client work closely together to confront the real-life obstacles that devalue and limit women, to achieve a new sense of inner strength, and to empower clients to make impor- • HEALING VOICES Toni Ann Laidlaw Cheryl Malmo and Associates HEALING VOICES Feminist Approaches to Therapy with Women •1• Jossey-Bass Publishers M San Francisco • Oxford • 1990 HEALING VOICES Feminist Approaches to Therapy with Women by Toni Ann Laidlaw, Cheryl Malmo, and Associates Copyright © 1990 by: Jossey-Bass Inc., Publishers 350 Sansome Street San Francisco, California 94104 &: Jossey-Bass Limited Headington Hill Hall Oxford OX3 0BW Copyright under International, Pan American, and Universal Copyright Conventions. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any -form-except for brief quotation (not to exceed 1,000 words) in a review or professional work-without permission in writing from the publishers. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Laidlaw, Toni Ann, date. Healing voices: feminist approaches to therapy with women / Toni Ann Laidlaw, Cheryl Malmo and associates. p. cm.-(The Jossey-Bass social and behavioral science series) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 1-55542-225-X I. Feminist therapy. 2. Psychotherapy. I. Malmo, Cheryl, date. II. Title. III. Series. RC489.F45L35 1990 6l6.89'l4-dc20 89-43458 CIP Manufactured in the United States of America The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. JACKET DESIGN BY CHARLOTTE KAY GRAPHIC DESIGN FIRST EDITION First printing: March 1990 Second printing: August 1990 Code 9019
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