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: 9780898625622
• ISBN10: 0898625629
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1991-04-19
• Publisher: The Guilford Press

Summary

This book presents an innovative relational perspective on women's ways of being in the world. It offers an alternative to traditional models of human development that define health and maturity in terms of separation and consistently define women as deficient. Written by leading clinicians and teachers from the Stone Center at Wellesley College, the book foregrounds women's meaning systems, values, and organization of experiences, which often revolve around relationships rather than the self. The authors set out basic relational principles and consider the implications for life challenges that many women face, as well as for psychotherapy.
 

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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