Abstract
Feminist therapy has risen correspondingly to feminism since 1960 (Israeli & Santor, 2000). Dutton-Douglas and Walker (1988) stated that over a decade feminist theory has greatly impacted the major therapysystems. Feminist therapy also has developed considerably and brought its unique contribution to the area ofpsychotherapy. This therapy addresses four important issues, which are: (a) the special problems thatwomen bring into the therapeutic setting, such as motherhood, employment discrimination, marriages, rape,wife abuse, sexual harassment, etc.; (b) sex-role socialization in the development of women, for example,women are expected to maintain the body image of a certain thin figure and try their best to stay youngbecause this society adores youth, especially for women, and other social sex-roles which keep womensubordinate to the other gender and, therefore, causes women' s unhealthy problems.; (c) the inadequacies ofcontemporary theory, research, and practice in addressing the lives of women; and (d) the development ofalternative approaches to conceptualization and intervention with women (Worell & Remer,1992).
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