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This paper discusses feminist therapists. It discusses the ways in which gender has shaped the lives and experiences of the people these therapists treat in order to understand how the gender role has expected them to develop and deal with stress, race, class, sexual orientation, age cohorts and abilities. It then discusses post-modern approaches which are non-traditional therapies that do not rely on diagnostic labels and therapies that disdain the medical model.

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Feminist Therapy
Postmodern Approaches

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"The desire to treat both men and women as equals in the therapy relationship is crucial to the success of the therapy and this is the benefit that this type of therapy offers. Not only is the client seen as equal to others in her or his milieu, but equal to the therapist. As such, it is unusually well-suited as a framework for understanding trauma and interpersonal violence because much of such violence occurs as a result of people's positions of relative powerlessness in the social realm. In Working With Men Survivors of Trauma and Abuse, Dr. Laura S. Brown demonstrated her approach to therapy with men who have been abused or suffered trauma in the past. In a taped session she worked with a 30-year-old man who was physically abused as a child. Dr. Brown was able to begin the process of helping this man to feel safe enough to trust another person. (Brown 2006)"

Sample of Sources Used:

• Brown, Laura S. Feminist Therapy, Part of the Systems of Psychotherapy, APA Psychotherapy Video Series (2006)
• Brown, L. S. (1994). Subversive dialogues: Theory in feminist therapy. New York: Basic Books.
• Bruner, J. (1986) Actual Minds, Possible Worlds, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
• Dutton-Douglas, M. A., & Walker, L. E. A. (Eds.). (1988). Feminist psychotherapies: Integration of therapeutic and feminist systems. Norwood NJ: Ablex Publishing.
• Guindon, M.H. (2006) Feminist Therapy: What's It All About? SelfHelpMagazine. selfhelpmagazine.com

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