The Healing Connection: How Women Form Relationships in Therapy and in Life
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ISBN: 0807029203 / Publisher: Beacon Pr, September 1997
Points to ways of interacting in relationships with family members, friends, colleagues, and therapists
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Two decades after the publication of Toward a New Psychology of Women , Miller and Stiver outline its practical applications, demonstrating how women's experiences in relationships shape psychological health. They analyze the process of empathetic listening and responding, proving how such moments of connection lead to psychological growth, while the repeated experience of disconnection or the failure of empathy in relationships causes psychological problems. A new kind of psychotherapy is specified, in which the therapist becomes an active participant. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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