Psychotherapy For Women Research Articles

The Rationale and Foundations Of Group Psychotherapy for Women with Metastatic Breast Cancer

ABSTRACTGroup psychotherapy has become an important modality of intervention in contemporary psychooncology. This article reviews and describes the rationale and foundations for group psychotherapy for women with metastatic breast cancer. It emerges from a replication study of an earlier study performed by Spiegel (Spiegel, Bloom, Kraemer & Gottheil, 1989), which demonstrated that participation in structured group psychotherapy resulted in improved psychosocial adjustment and a significant survival effect on women with metastatic breast cancer. Other intervention studies, psychosocial effects of psychosocial interventions, as well as psychosocial variables associated with the course of illness, are described. The contribution of existential considerations in psychotherapy is also articulated as a component of the group-supportive expressive intervention. Clinical illustrations, emerging from ongoing treatment groups, are used to demonstrate theoretical concepts.

Psychotherapy for women: A pilot project

SHANTI was set up five years ago under the auspices of West Lambeth Health Authority as a pioneer project funded by Inner City Partnership to provide mental health services for women, in a community setting. It is a free service now financed and administered within the NHS, situated on a Brixton housing estate and staffed by five therapists (some only part-time), a co-ordinator and creche worker (all women). The service offers individual, brief, focused, psychoanalytic psychotherapy together with some group work and a befriending scheme. Its rationale was the existence of a largely unmet need expressed by local women for a safe, user-friendly place where they could choose to come to talk about their distress. Extensive outreach work undertaken in the community before the clinical service opened, and research evaluation of the needs and expectations of current users, have confirmed the importance of this approach to women's psychological well-being.

When a Baby Dies: Psychotherapy for Pregnancy and Newborn Loss

As a basis for his suggestions for psychotherapy for women who have suffered perinatal loss, Dr Leon begins with a discussion of the psychology of pregnancy. The approach is primarily a psychoanalytic one with emphasis on Freudian concepts including oral incorporation, penis envy, and oedipal conflicts. These basic concepts are said to play a large role in the pregnant woman's identification with her own mother. Dr Leon does not neglect the tenets of self psychology such as object seeking, the idea of the conceptus as an intimate part of the mother's own body and that of her husband, and the sense of narcissistic damage that occurs with the death or malformation of the fetus. The narcissistic injury impacts on the mother's body image, sexuality, and feeling of competence as a mother. The remaining 110 pages of the book deal with individual cases, suggested interpretations, and therapeutic emphases. These 20 persons

Gender Based Countertransferance of Female Therapists in the Psychotherapy of Women

Gender Based Countertransferance of Female Therapists in the Psychotherapy of Women

The Division 17 Principles Concerning the Counseling/Psychotherapy of Women

In 1978 the Division of Counseling Psychology of the American Psychological Association (APA) approved the Principles Concerning the Counseling and Psychotherapy of Women as an official policy statement for the Division. These Principles, subsequently endorsed by Divisions 16,29, and 35, have also served as a general resource document for the APA, and are cited as a resource in the Guidelines for the Provision of Counseling Psychological Services (APA, 1983). Almost from the inception of the Principles, the Division 17 Committee on Women, which authored them, had anticipated the need for an extensive exposition of each principle, to guide psychologists seeking to implement both their spirit and their content. Thus, the present document, which presents the background and rationale for each principle as well as suggestions for implementation, was born. The result of over 5 years of work, the document has been extensively reviewed, revised, and again reviewed-not only by the committee and its various resource and support persons but also by psychologists from all across the country, both within and without Division 17. The process of cooperation, incorporation, and revision has been both frustrating and inspiring, as we worked to produce a document that could stand as a guide to our science and our profession for at least a decade. The final version was approved by the Division 17 Executive Committee at its 1984 midyear meeting. This document is the product of literally hundreds of women (and men) who have contributed time, thought, and effort over nearly half a decade to bring this project to fruition, and thus, to contribute to the welfare of women everywhere. Although it bears our names, we are intensely aware that it is truly a cooperative product of the committee, the division, and ultimately, our profession as a whole.

Les thérapies féministes: un noveau système psychothérapeutique?

Feminist therapies have been in existence now for about 12 years. These therapies claim to be attempts to develop a new conceptual model of psychotherapy. The aim of this article is to evaluate the originality and the value of four principal feminist therapies and theories: those proposed by Fodor (1974), by the Feminist Counseling Collective (1975), by Dubois (1976) and by Miller (1976). Their originality is analysed by examining the extent to which the theory and the therapy depart from the Freudian, humanist and behavioural models. Scientific and social criteria are employed to assess their value as psychotherapy for women. The result of this analysis suggests that the feminist models studied are not distinct psychotherapeutic systems. Their originality is that they identify the status and roles of women as determinants of women's problems and as essential elements to be worked on in the therapeutic process. Only the model proposed by Fodor (1974) is shown to have value both as a theory and a therapy. The weakness of the others is their generality. It is concluded that evaluative research is necessary to assess these new therapies.

Women and Psychotherapy

The current wave of feminism in the United States, which has grown out of the civil rights movement of the '60s, has had a major impact on the psychotherapy of women. Large numbers of women in the United States came to realize that while they were struggling for the equality of all people, their own contributions and talents were being relegated to second-class status. Slogans such as Make policy, not coffee indicated that women were challenging the gender definitions that limited their participation in social change to those functions always granted them: supporting the efforts of men by being the helpers. Once the movement gained momentum, women began to question not only their role in the civil rights movement but their relationship to аЛ social institutions: marriage, religion, education, and psychiatry, among others. The earliest of the feminists* attacks on the traditional views of

Brief Group Psychotherapy for Women after Divorce

Divorce is a period of personal turbulence for women experiencing the separation process. A model for a brief, focused group psychotherapy experience for women, led by women therapists, is suggeste...

Psychotherapy for Women: Treatment Toward Equality

Back to table of contents Previous article Next article ArticleNo AccessPsychotherapy for Women: Treatment Toward EqualityNANCY C.A. ROESKENANCY C.A. ROESKESearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:1 Apr 2006https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.2.268-aAboutSectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail "Psychotherapy for Women: Treatment Toward Equality." American Journal of Psychiatry, 135(2), pp. 268-a–269 Access content To read the fulltext, please use one of the options below to sign in or purchase access. Personal login Institutional Login Sign in via OpenAthens Purchase Save for later Item saved, go to cart PPV Articles - American Journal of Psychiatry $35.00 Add to cart PPV Articles - American Journal of Psychiatry Checkout Please login/register if you wish to pair your device and check access availability. Not a subscriber? Subscribe Now / Learn More PsychiatryOnline subscription options offer access to the DSM-5 library, books, journals, CME, and patient resources. This all-in-one virtual library provides psychiatrists and mental health professionals with key resources for diagnosis, treatment, research, and professional development. Need more help? PsychiatryOnline Customer Service may be reached by emailing [email protected] or by calling 800-368-5777 (in the U.S.) or 703-907-7322 (outside the U.S.). FiguresReferencesCited byDetailsCited byNone Volume 135Issue 2 February 1978Pages 268-a-269 Metrics PDF download History Published online 1 April 2006 Published in print 1 February 1978

Psychotherapy for Women

Psychotherapy for Women

Women and Therapy: A Survey on Internship Programs

Two hundred and ninety-nine internship programs and selected psychology graduate schools were surveyed by mail regarding their opinions and practices relevant to training in psychotherapy for women. The 94 usable replies included 55% of all APA approved programs. The results indicated that only a minority of training facilities deal in a systematic way with issues of sex bias and sex-role stereotyping in psychological practice. About 20% of the respondents expressed a need to improve their programs. Respondents' answers are detailed and the suggestion is made that egalitarian group supervisory meetings afford more opportunity than individual sessions to deal effectively with issues of sex bias and stereotyping.