Women's Growth In Connection Writings from the Stone Center

by Jordan, Judith V.; Kaplan, Alexandra G.; Stiver, Irene P.; Surrey, Janet L.; Miller, Jean Baker

• ISBN13: 9780898624656
• ISBN10: 0898624657
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1991-04-19
• Publisher: The Guilford Press

Summary

Women's Growth in Connection offers a sampling of the influential idea s emanating from The Stone Center, Wellesley College, about women's me aning systems, values, and organization of experiences. These chapters , about women's ways of being in the world, frame an innovative relati onal perspective on women's psychological development. The authors--cl inicians, clinical supervisors, and teachers--have been searching for therapeutic models that more clearly reflect women's lives. They are t roubled by models of "human" development inspired by male culture, mod els that define health and maturity in terms of separation and consist ently define women as deficient.

Author Biography

Judith Jordan, Ph.D., is Director of Training and Founding Scholar at the Jean Baker Miller Institute, the Stone Center, Wellesley College, and Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School.

Table of Contents

Part I, A Developmental Perspective

The Development of Women's Sense of Self

Women and Empathy: A Basic Concept in Development

The ""Self-in-Relation: A Theory of Women's Development

Empathy and Self Boundaries

The Meaning of Mutuality

Beyond the Oedipus Complex: Mothers and Daughters

Women's Self-Development in Late Adolescence

Part II, Applications

The Meanings of Dependency in Female-Male Relationships

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