| Description |
368 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: an historical view of psychotherapy and women's rights -- The mental health problems of women: social roles and the individual -- Passion as a mental health hazard / Sophie Freud Loewenstein -- Mothers and their children: a study of low income families / Deborah Belle -- The experience of abortion / Tamara E. Belovitch -- Women and employment: some emotional hazards / Jeanne Parr Lemkau -- From renunciation to rebellion: the female in literature / William A. Shuey III -- Toward choice and differentiation in the midlife crises of women / Sophie Freud Loewenstein -- From traditional psychoanalysis to alternatives to psychotherapy -- A new look at the psychoanalytic view of the female / Leon Salzman -- Assertion training for women / Eileen D. Gambrill and Cheryl A. Richey -- The role and function of women's consciousness raising: self-help, psychotherapy, or political activation? / Gary R. Bond and Morton A. Lieberman -- The treatment of depressed women: the efficacy of psychotherapy / Myrna M. Weissman -- Math anxiety and female mental health: some unexpected links / Bonnie Donady, Stanley Kogelman, and Sheila Tobias -- Conclusion: Toward the future -- liberation and negotiation. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index. |
| Subject |
Women -- Psychology.
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Women's rights -- United States.
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Mental health -- United States.
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Psychoanalysis -- United States.
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Psychotherapy -- United States.
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Women -- Physiology.
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Women -- Essays.
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Psychotherapy -- Essays.
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Psychology, Social -- Essays.
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| Added Author |
Heckerman, Carol Landau.
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| ISBN |
0877053928 |
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0877054118 paperback |
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