Women's Growth in Connection : Writings from the Stone Center

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

ISBN 10: 0898625629 / ISBN 13: 9780898625622

Published by Taylor & Francis Group, 1991

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Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Women's Growth in Connection : Writings from the Stone Center
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0898625629
• ISBN 13: 9780898625622
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 1.442 pounds

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Synopsis

Overly emotional, hysterical, dependent, frivolous, fickle... Why have women been so consistently defined as deficient in maturity, self-mastery, and independence according to the models of human development inspired by male culture? The authors of WOMEN'S GROWTH IN CONNECTION, a sampling of the influential working papers from the Stone Center, Wellesley College, have sought to answer this question by studying developmental theory and reformulating it to reflect women's experience more accurately. These papers, about women's ways of being in the world, frame an innovative relational perspective on women's psychological development. The authors--clinicians, clinical supervisors, and teachers--have been searching for therapeutic models that take into account women's meaning systems, values, and organization of experiences, all of which often revolves around relationships rather than the self. By offering a new perspective on women's development, WOMEN'S GROWTH IN CONNECTION stands at the forefront of the ongoing feminist movement to examine and reshape psychological theory and practice. The authors offer this volume as an invitation to the reader to join in the building of new models of women's development.

About the Author

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.