A late awakening

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Feminist therapist Rachel Josefowitz Siegel believes that her major contributions to feminism are her writings and lectures on getting old, Jewish women and social prejudice. Her awareness of the women's movement was triggered by Jean Baker Miller's book 'Psychoanalysis and Women' and other psychoanalytic books. She also discusses the effects of the First Interdisciplinary Congress on Women and a meeting with the Association for Women in Psychology on her feminist therapy insights.

Siegel, Rachel Josefowitz

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Adventures of a feminist

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Feminist Kate Millett is against feminist therapy because it merely uses feminism to improve the therapist's professional practice. Negative aspects of psychiatry include the absence of a standard of care and its oppression of women. Psychiatric treatment of women espouse anti-patriarchal beliefs. Millett's major contributions to mental health include support for ill-treated mental patients and an anti-psychiatry book entitled 'The Looney Bin Trip.'

Millett, Kate

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Politicizing sexual violence: a voice in the wilderness

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A South African white woman challenges the use of excessive therapy in treating female victims of sexual abuse. She extols the therapeutic involvement in the feminist movement. Her major contributions to feminism include analyses of pornography and various kinds of sexual assault against women. Her active involvement in feminism includes the founding of Women Against Violence in Pornography and Media.

Women

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