Abstract
This article identifies essentialist tendencies in contemporary feminist therapy theory. It is argued that an epistemological shift that moves us away from totalizing categories and toward greater reflexivity is needed. The author provides an outline of this epistemological shift by addressing two main questions: (1) In what ways do some of our feminist criticisms of mainstream psychology inadvertently succumb to unhelpful positivist assumptions? (2) What kind of paradigm change is needed in order to eliminate unhelpful vestiges of essentialism in feminist therapy theory?
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