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1 online resource (302 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction: A Patchwork Quilt; A Communal Perspective for Relational Therapies; Introduction; The Early Strands; The Influence of Postmodernism; Communal Practices; In Search of Subjugated Knowledge; Listening to the Voices of Anorexia: The Researcher as an "Outsider-Witness"; Introduction; The Research Questions; The History of Female Fasting; The Contemporary Problem; The Interviews; Documents of Identity; The Kirk Curse; The Family Story; The Illness; The Return to Father; Mother's Ghost; Unspeakable Dilemmas; The Recovery |
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The Kirk CurseConclusion; Nobody Tells You Who You Are: First Notes on a Community Project for Girls and Women in Rural Massachusetts; Introduction; Beginnings; The Big Picture; The Project: Nobody Tells You Who You Are; The Statues Game; Group Discussion; Outcome; The Creative Arts Workshops; The Girls; The Mentors; Mentor/Mentee View: Two Interviews; Gloria-A Mentor; Amber-A Mentee; Future Plans; Can You Love Them Enough? Organizational Consulting as a Spiritual Quest; Spirituality and Love in Organizations; Contested Terrain in One Organization: A Parable; Finding A Loving Stance |
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The Idea of a QuestThe Importance of Questions; The Importance of Wonder; Looking for the Exceptions; Focusing on Positive Outcomes; Building Empathy and Respect; Holding the Group-as-a-Whole; Black Love; A Summary Metaphor; The Talking Oppression Blues: Including the Experience of Power/Powerlessness in the Teaching of "Cultural Sensitivity"; "Racism 101": First Lessons; Racism as Dominant Discourse; Putting The World Back into Therapy; White is Healthy: Eurocentric Theory; Local Knowledge; Standing Outside Oneself; "Multiplexity"; Lived Experience; The Problem of Competing "-ISMS." |
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ConclusionTheorizing Culture: Narrative Ideas and Practice Principles; The Need to Move Beyond Static Notions of Culture; More Dynamic Notions of Culture: Some Suggestions; Culture Is Performative and Improvisational; Culture Is Fluid/Emergent; Culture Is Intersection; Culture Is Definitional and Constitutive; Culture Is Political; Implications for Practice; Making "Culture" the Central Metaphor for Therapy; Taking an Ethnographic Stance; Assuming a Narrative Stance; Deconstructing Cultural Self-Narratives; Locating Cultural Narrative in the Larger Social Discourse |
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Resisting Culture or Interrogating the Subjugating NarrativeMoving Beyond the Mirrored Room Toward a Culturally Just Practice; Ritual as Therapy, Therapy as Ritual; Ritual as Therapy; The Ritual of Bar/Bat Mitzvah; How the Bar/Bat Mitzvah Works Therapeutically; Ritual Responsivity; Therapy as Ritual; An Alternative Bar Mitzvah; Jack and the Beanstalk; Parallels between Ritual and Therapy; Conclusion; Feminism in the Middle East: Reflections on Ethnographic Research in Lebanon; Lebanon: The Country; Patriarchal Tradition and Islam; Childrearing and Socialization in the Middle East |
| Summary |
... From the minds of therapists on the cutting edge!This informative, innovative collection brings together the work of a group of "scholar-therapists," all women, who have met regularly for ten years to discuss family therapy, gender, and postmodern ideas. The major themes--feminism, community, and communication--are taken in new directions. Feminism, Community, and Communication rethinks therapy, research, teaching, and community work with a renewed emphasis on collaboration, intersubjectivity, and the process of communication as a world-making and identity-making acti |
| Notes |
Roots of Middle Eastern Feminism |
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Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Olson, Mary E
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| ISBN |
9781317956914 |
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1317956915 |
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