Female Authority: Empowering Women through Psychotherapy

by Polly Young-Eisendrath, Florence L. Wiedemann

Libro usado en buenas condiciones, por su antiguedad podria contener señales normales de uso

Genres: Psychology

242 pages, Hardcover

First published February 6, 1987

About the author

Polly Young-Eisendrath, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst, psychologist, and psychotherapist in private practice. She is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Vermont and the founder and director of the Institute for Dialogue Therapy. She is past president of the Vermont Association for Psychoanalytic Studies and a founding member of the Vermont Institute for the Psychotherapies. Polly is also the chairperson of Enlightening Conversations, a series of conversational conferences which bring together participants from the front lines of Buddhism and psychoanalysis. Polly has published sixteen books, as well as many chapters and articles, that have been translated into more than twenty languages, including The Self-Esteem Trap: Raising Confident and Compassionate Kids in an Age of Self-Importance> and Love Between Equals: Relationship as a Spiritual Path>.

Reviews

[Amber Middlebrook · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an aggressive read, full of examples of how women are challenged to gain authority over one's life in our current patriarchal society. author explains in the first sentence,'personal authority is the ability to validate ones own thoughts and actions as good and true.' then i found this powerful and validating to my own experience, 'a woman maintains her self esteem and personal worth primarly through male reflections' this is based on men socialized to behave authoratatively while women form identity relationships with them in order to validate their own personal authority. this can create challenges between women and male relationships as well as how it impacts a womens self-esteem and worth when it needs to be reflected, not owned internally. the author does a great job walking through the stages of animus development and shares examples, dreams, and real client progressions. Really enjoyed being able to map my own journey. I'm glad I picked this up now, as it's fairly aggressive and may have been too hard to grasp earlier in my journey. I enjoyed the conclusion regarding empathy: self as dependent. physical and emotional dependence is a primary condition of human life. Regardless of how independent we are, we are dependent on human interaction for the development of persona. ' The sense of self, in its inherent structure is always refers to the other because it is the relationship to the other that provides the basis for reflection on oneself.' Human experience is a shared experience.

[Viktorija Marinković Uma Vid · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very andvanced reading. And beautiful. My opinion is that you have to have some experience of psychoterapy and psychoanalysis/jungian anslysis to be able to understand the language of the book.

[Georgina · Rating 4 out of 5]

it aged well

[Lex · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great, so necessary! I love how forward thinking and practical PYE is! Very refreshing in a world moving beyond duality