Cultural Resistance: Challenging Beliefs About Men, Women, and Therapy

by Weingarten; Kaethe

• ISBN13: 9781560230816
• ISBN10: 1560230819
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1995-11-27
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Cultural Resistance: Challenging Beliefs About Men, Women, and Therapy analyzes cultural constraints and encourages therapists, individuals, and communities to practice cultural resistance on a daily basis, allowing for the realization of diverse and suppressed knowledges.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Attending to Absence	1	(6)
Kathy Weingarten
Radical Listening: Challenging Cultural Beliefs for and About Mothers	7	(16)
Kathy Weingarten
Story	9	(1)
Discourse	10	(3)
Sue's Story: Silencing to ``Protect'' a Child from Oneself	13	(2)
Connie's Story: The Irony of Powerlessness	15	(1)
Therapist Responses	16	(5)
Conclusion	21	(2)
Out of Objectification: Comment on Kathy Weingarten's ``Radical Listening: Challenging Cultural Beliefs for and About Mothers''	23	(4)
Laura Benkov
Fathering Our Sons; Refathering Ourselves: Some Thoughts on Transforming Masculine Legacies	27	(18)
Terry Real
Timmy	28	(1)
The Myth of ``Masculine Identity''	29	(3)
Traditional Fathering as Psychological Violence	32	(2)
Active and Passive Abuse	34	(6)
Conclusion	40	(5)
Boys Will be Men: A Response to Terry Real's Paper	45	(4)
Virginia Goldner
Lesbian and Gay Parents: From Margin to Center	49	(16)
Laura Benkov
Part I: Finding an Approach to Research	50	(8)
Part II: A Question Emerges: What Is a Family?	58	(4)
Conclusion: Research and Clinical Practice in a Changing Social Context	62	(3)
Response to Laura Benkov, ``Lesbian and Gay Parents: From Margin to Center''	65	(4)
Joan Laird
A Narrative Approach to So-Called Anorexia/Bulimia	69	(28)
David Epston
Fran Morris
Rick Maisel
Steps in the Process of Getting Free of Anorexia/Bulimia	71	(1)
Breaking the Spell of Anorexia/Bulimia	71	(4)
Turning Against Anorexia/Bulimia	75	(3)
Reclaiming a Life and Making an Appearance in It	78	(2)
Post-Liberation	80	(2)
From the Archive of the Anti-Anorexia (Bulimia) League Correspondence Between Fran Morris and David Epston	82	(15)
A Letter to David Epston	97	(6)
Peggy Penn
The Discourse on Thomas v. Hill: A Resource for Perspectives on the Black Woman and Sexual Trauma	103	(16)
Jessica Henderson Daniel
History of Sexual Violence	106	(2)
Race vs. Gender and the Silencing of the Black Woman	108	(2)
Social Construction of the Black Woman	110	(2)
The Reconstruction of the Black Woman	112	(2)
Case Examples	114	(1)
Conclusion	115	(4)
The Hill/Thomas Debate as Source for Understanding the Black Woman and Sexual Trauma: A Response	119	(4)
Elaine Pinderhughes
Opening Therapy to Conversations with a Personal God	123	(18)
Melissa Elliott Griffith
The Entrapment of Knowing	125	(2)
From Certainty to Wonder	127	(10)
Conclusion	137	(4)
Response to ``Opening Therapy to Conversations with a Personal God''	141	(2)
Sallyann Roth
From Stuck Debate to New Conversation on Controversial Issues: A Report from the Public Conversations Project	143	(22)
Carol Becker
Laura Chasin
Richard Chasin
Margaret Herzig
Sallyann Roth
The Dominant Discourse in Polarized Public Debate	145	(1)
Dialogue as an Alternative to Polarized Debate	146	(1)
Bringing Clinical Skills to Work on Dialogue	147	(1)
Background on the Model	148	(1)
Out line of the Model	149	(2)
Guiding Objectives	151	(1)
Preparing Participants for a Journey into the New	152	(1)
Creating a Safe Context	153	(1)
Avoiding the Old Debate	154	(1)
Fostering Co-Creation of a New Conversation	155	(4)
Dialogue in Democracy	159	(6)
Commentary on ``From Stuck Debate to New Conversation on Controversial Issues: A Report from the Public Conversations Project''	165
Michael White