Women, Girls & Psychotherapy

Adolescent girls' special needs in the teen-age years are thoroughly examined in this compelling book focusing on the resistance stage of development in young girls. Drawing on studies of women's and girl's development, clinical work with girls and women, and their personal experiences, the voices of adolescent girls are used to reframe and greater understand their resistance against debilitating conventions of feminine behavior.

Gilligan, Carol; Rogers, Annie G; Tolman, Deborah L

Contents Introduction - Section I: Reframing Resistance - Women's Psychological Development: Implication for Psychotherapy - A Feminist Poetics of Psychotherapy - Adolescent Girls, Women and Sexuality: Discerning Dilemmas of Desire - Section II: Strategies of Resistance - Telling a Girl's Life: Self-Authorization as a Form of Resistance - "A Belief in Self Far Greater Than Anyone's Disbelief": Cultivating Resistance Among African-American Female Adolescents - Disavowing the Self in Female Adolescence - Teen Females in Minnesota: A Portrait of Quiet Disturbance - Section III: The Centrality of Relationships - Raising a Resister - Two-Part Inventions: Knowing What We Know - The Body at Play - Coming Out Against All Odds: Resistance in the Life of a Young Lesbian - Do You Have Eyelashes? - Section IV: Notes From the Underground - Adolescent Resistance and the Maladies of Women: Notes From the Underground - Crossing the Desert Alone: An Etiological Model of Female Adolescent Suicidality - Working With Adolescent Girls: Strategies to Address Health Status - When The Body Speaks: Girls, Eating Disorders and Psychotherapy - Index - Reference Notes Included