Sight Unseen: Gender and Race Through Blind Eyes

Sight Unseen reveals the cultural and biological realities of race, gender, and sexual orientation from the perspective of the blind. Through ten case studies and dozens of interviews, Ellyn Kaschak taps directly into the phenomenology of race, gender, and sexual orientation among blind individuals, along with the everyday epistemology of vision. Kaschak's work reveals not only how the blind create systems of meaning out of cultural norms but also how cultural norms inform our conscious and unconscious interactions with others regardless of our physical ability to see.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Kaschak, Ellyn

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Columbia University Press

Psychology & Counseling

Uses examples from film, television, literature, and everyday life to survey all aspects of both women's physical and social experience, and argues that gender bias is embedded in all current social systems

Engendered Lives: A New Psychology Of Women's Experience

Basic Books

A noted feminist psychologist takes a fascinating look at the lived and ordinary experience of women to present the first psychology of women that integrates all aspects of experience, from the physical to the sociocultural.

Engendered Lives: A New Psychology Of Women's Lives

Beyond the Rule Book: Moral Issues and Dilemmas in the Practice of Psychotherapy

Hill, Marcia

Routledge

Learn to take a moral position as a feminist therapist! Beyond the Rule Book: Moral Issues and Dilemmas in the Practice of Psychotherapy examines feminist therapy and its commitment to work against injustice and work for social and personal change by providing quality and unbiased services to clients. A dialogue is opened among feminist psychotherapists about the moral aspects of psychotherapy from the standpoint that psychotherapy, without a moral stance, is defined as demoralizing. You will discover psychotherapeutic situations that do not fit into any established ethical code, so that the code must be interpreted and a decision must be made giving your clients unprejudiced and effective service. Beyond the Rule Book will help every feminist therapist with the moral and ethical dilemmas that constantly arise in practice. You will explore the use of moral codes in feminist therapy and learn practical suggestions for therapeutic self-care to improve the quality of your sessions. In addition, these suggestions will teach you to model positive behavior in sessions and prevent burnout. Some of the areas of feminist therapy you will explore include: 
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<li>lesbian feminism and deconstructing the lesbian feminist “rules” of sexuality and physical appearance </li>
<li>case examples of clinical situations where the therapist is able to use her moral stance to help low-income clients with homophobia and paternalism </li>
<li>case examples and creative interpretation of a biblical text to create a moral view for the feminist therapist </li>
<li>ways to morally and ethically work in a penal or other institutional system that may be racist and patriarchal, and may also be inherently antagonistic to the development of trust in the therapeutic relationship </li>
<li>questions about boundaries with clients with disabilities, being effective with this population, valuing the disability culture, and being aware of the differences between disability and impairment </li>
<li>the interface between personal and political agendas for the therapist and the clientBeyond the Rule Book will show you how the issue of morality affects your services and how to make decisions beyond established ethical codes. You will explore and consider questions such as “What is the role of morality in psychotherapy?” and “What is the role of psychotherapy in a moral or an immoral society?” This well-written and informative book will assist you in choosing and applying a moral framework to your work as a feminist therapist, also giving clients effective and responsible services without any unfair and premature judgements. </li>
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Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

For Love or Money: The Fee in Feminist Therapy

Realize how you can charge what your services are worth and still care about your clients!For Love or Money: The Fee in Feminist Therapy examines the rarely talked about topic of payment in therapy, taking a symbolic and psychological look at the meaning of fees to both the psychologist and client. This intelligent book offers firsthand advice and information concerning how gender can make a difference in your feelings about fees and how the managed care environment affects women clients. For Love or Money will help you handle your concerns about fees as it discusses payment for missed sessions, bartering, the meaning of fees with African-American women and with women in prison, and a model for pro bono work.Since most therapists don’t discuss fees with colleagues, For Love or Money provides you with a way to gain information that might not otherwise be available to you. As a therapist, you will explore perspectives on what other therapists think about fees and what feelings other therapists have about the amounts they charge for their services. Some of the fee issues you will examine include: five typical therapist conflicts that are felt when it comes to fees the need to change managed behavioral health care to include equal payment for mental health care, length and type of treatment at the discretion of the client and provider, and appropriate training in women’s mental health issues for all health care providers setting a frame of therapy that includes session time, session length, duration of treatment, fee, confidentiality, and the “rules” of client participation to allow for successful psychotherapy sound clinical reasons for enforcing payment for missed sessions and considering a situation where flexibility is recommended pro bono work that is satisfying With this insightful and well-written book, you will explore issues such as transference, the symbolic meaning of money, and feelings you may have that could interfere with your ability to follow through with your own payment policies. For Love or Money examines many of the issues that surround the taboo topic of fees and will assist you with tackling this seldom-addressed and often uncomfortable subject for the therapist who wants to help her clients, but may feel distressed at setting and sticking to established fees.

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Realize how you can charge what your services are worth and still care about your clients!For Love or Money: The Fee in Feminist Therapy examines the rarely talked about topic of payment in therapy, taking a symbolic and psychological look at the meaning of fees to both the psychologist and client. This intelligent book offers firsthand advice and information concerning how gender can make a difference in your feelings about fees and how the managed care environment affects women clients. For Love or Money will help you handle your concerns about fees as it discusses payment for missed sessions, bartering, the meaning of fees with African-American women and with women in prison, and a model for pro bono work.Since most therapists don’t discuss fees with colleagues, For Love or Money provides you with a way to gain information that might not otherwise be available to you. As a therapist, you will explore perspectives on what other therapists think about fees and what feelings other therapists have about the amounts they charge for their services. Some of the fee issues you will examine include: 
<ul>
<li>five typical therapist conflicts that are felt when it comes to fees </li>
<li>the need to change managed behavioral health care to include equal payment for mental health care, length and type of treatment at the discretion of the client and provider, and appropriate training in women’s mental health issues for all health care providers </li>
<li>setting a frame of therapy that includes session time, session length, duration of treatment, fee, confidentiality, and the “rules” of client participation to allow for successful psychotherapy </li>
<li>sound clinical reasons for enforcing payment for missed sessions and considering a situation where flexibility is recommended </li>
<li>pro bono work that is satisfying With this insightful and well-written book, you will explore issues such as transference, the symbolic meaning of money, and feelings you may have that could interfere with your ability to follow through with your own payment policies. For Love or Money examines many of the issues that surround the taboo topic of fees and will assist you with tackling this seldom-addressed and often uncomfortable subject for the therapist who wants to help her clients, but may feel distressed at setting and sticking to established fees. </li>
</ul>

Minding the Body

Support and empower women who are coping with the pain, fear, and stigma of serious diseaseBeing diagnosed with cancer, chronic fatigue syndrome, or fibromyalgia is a traumatic event that takes place at a time when the patient is already feeling physically (and often emotionally) drained. Minding the Body combines feminist and social constructionist approaches to offer an intimate look into the ways a therapist can help clients cope with the pain, fear, and stigma of serious disease.Minding the Body offers an alternative to the reductive view of the mind-body connection and also examines the potential for growth that such experiences often allow. The essays gathered here show how an effective therapist can help the client deal with the painful and difficult emotions that exacerbate illness, while learning the emotional and spiritual lessons illness can teach. Minding the Body presents both theoretical views and personal accounts of illness, including:  scholarly discussions of the issues involved in autoimmune disorders  a therapist's personal experience of chronic fatigue syndrome  a personal and professional exposition of a woman's struggles with injury, illness, and managed care, co-written by client and therapist  suggestions for understanding the social construction of illness and treating disease from a social-constructivist point of view  narratives reflecting on the change and growth of therapists diagnosed with cancer and other serious illnessesBy looking at illness in the context of mind, body, society, and medical establishment, Minding the Body will help therapists, doctors, nurses, counselors, and clients deal with the grief, disappointment, and frustration of chronic and life-threatening illness.

Minding the Body: Psychotherapy in Cases of Chronic and Life-Threatening Illness

Support and empower women who are coping with the pain, fear, and stigma of serious diseaseBeing diagnosed with cancer, chronic fatigue syndrome, or fibromyalgia is a traumatic event that takes place at a time when the patient is already feeling physically (and often emotionally) drained. Minding the Body combines feminist and social constructionist approaches to offer an intimate look into the ways a therapist can help clients cope with the pain, fear, and stigma of serious disease.Minding the Body offers an alternative to the reductive view of the mind-body connection and also examines the potential for growth that such experiences often allow. The essays gathered here show how an effective therapist can help the client deal with the painful and difficult emotions that exacerbate illness, while learning the emotional and spiritual lessons illness can teach. Minding the Body presents both theoretical views and personal accounts of illness, including: 
<ul>
<li> scholarly discussions of the issues involved in autoimmune disorders </li>
<li> a therapist's personal experience of chronic fatigue syndrome </li>
<li> a personal and professional exposition of a woman's struggles with injury, illness, and managed care, co-written by client and therapist </li>
<li> suggestions for understanding the social construction of illness and treating disease from a social-constructivist point of view </li>
<li> narratives reflecting on the change and growth of therapists diagnosed with cancer and other serious illnessesBy looking at illness in the context of mind, body, society, and medical establishment, Minding the Body will help therapists, doctors, nurses, counselors, and clients deal with the grief, disappointment, and frustration of chronic and life-threatening illness.</li>
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Sight Unseen: Gender and Race Through Blind Eyes

Sight Unseen: Gender and Race Through Blind Eyes

Engendered Lives: A New Psychology Of Women's Experience

Engendered Lives: A New Psychology Of Women's Lives

Beyond the Rule Book: Moral Issues and Dilemmas in the Practice of Psychotherapy

Beyond the Rule Book: Moral Issues and Dilemmas in the Practice of Psychotherapy

For Love or Money: The Fee in Feminist Therapy

For Love or Money: The Fee in Feminist Therapy

Minding the Body: Psychotherapy in Cases of Chronic and Life-Threatening Illness

Minding the Body