Reviews
… if you’re interested in any form of psychotherapy or counselling as well as in feminism, then this is the book for you.
–Diana Currie, Newsletter of Women with Disabilities Australia
I recently bought Beyond Psychoppression, Betty McLellan’s book – a feminist critique of mainstream psychotherapy. Hearing that a friend was having “great gobs of depression”, I photocopied a chapter for her to read. She loved it and declared, “I definitely feel better from having read it – thank you.” Now she is waiting impatiently for me to finish reading the book so I can pass it on to her.
–Sandra Sewell
Table of Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE: FEMINIST VOICES, PAST AND PRESENT
1. Psychotherapy and Feminism: A History
PART TWO: THEORETICAL ISSUES FOR A FEMINIST THERAPY
2. Oppression: Cause of Women’s Distress
3. Access and Honesty
4. Passion and Justice
PART THREE: BLAME-THE-VICTIM THERAPIES
5. Freud and Psychoanalysis
6. Humanistic Therapies
7. New Age and Popular Psychologies
8. Lesbian Sex Therapy
PART FOUR: PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF A FEMINIST THERAPY
9. Elements of a Feminist Therapy
10. Feminist Therapy in Practice
CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS CITED
INDEX