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Women and the Politics of ‘Psychotherapy’
Author(s) -
Homer Anthony R.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
australian journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1839-4655
pISSN - 0157-6321
DOI - 10.1002/j.1839-4655.1977.tb00594.x
Subject(s) - conformity , project commissioning , psychotherapist , politics , publishing , psychology , psychoanalysis , sociology , social psychology , political science , law
The effects upon women of the most common form of psychotherapy are neither in the best interests of those treated nor in the best interests of women in general. Instead, psychotherapy is aimed toward producing social stability through destructively enforcing sex‐role conformity.