Changing Our Minds by Celia Kitzinger; Rachel Perkins

Changing Our Minds

Lesbian Feminism And Psychology

Celia Kitzinger; Rachel Perkins

Women today are being instructed on how they can raise their self-esteem, love their inner child, survive their toxic families, overcome codependency, and experience a revolution from within. By holding up the ideal of a pure and happy inner core, psychotherapists refuse to acknowledge that a certain degree of unhappiness or dissatisfaction is a routine part of life and not necessarily a cause for therapy. Lesbians specifically are now guided to define themselves according to their frailties, inadequacies, and insecurities.

An incisive critique of contemporary feminist psychology and therapy, Changing our Minds argues not just that the current practice of psychology is flawed, but that the whole idea of psychology runs counter to many tenets of lesbian feminist politics. Recognizing that many lesbians do feel unhappy and experience a range of problems that detract from their well-being, Changing Our Minds makes positive, prescriptive suggestions for non-psychological ways of understanding and dealing with emotional distress.

Written in a lively and engaging style, Changing our Minds is required reading for anyone who has ever been in therapy or is close to someone who has, and for lesbians, feminists, psychologists, psychotherapists, students of psychology and women’s studies, and anyone with an interest in the development of lesbian feminist theory, ethics, and practice

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Details

ISBN	9780814746455
Genre	LGBT Studies/Social Sciences
Publication Date	01-Sep-93
Publisher	NYU Press
Format	Hardcover
No. of Pages	216
Language	English
Rating	NotRated
Subject	Feminist Psychology; Lesbian feminism; Lesbian feminist theory; Lesbians – Psychology
BookID	1921