The politics of naming and the development of morality: implications for feminist therapists

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Author's Abstract: COPYRIGHT 1999 The Howarth Press, Inc. Feminists have challenged traditional uses of naming and have reclaimed naming as a tool of empowerment rather than of oppression. Yet feminist naming often reverts into the paradigm of dominant culture, leading to further domination and social control through the creation of norms, rules, and moral absolutes. By focusing specifically on lesbian-feminism and deconstructing the lesbian-feminist "rules" of sexuality and physical appearance, this article explores the dualistic nature of feminist naming and morality and how they inadvertently mimic the moral paradigm of dominant culture. This article closes with a discussion of alternative models of feminist naming and moral frameworks. Keywords: Feminism, ethics, morality, lesbians, feminist therapy

Lesbianism, Moral development

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What is necessary, and what is right? Feminist dilemmas in community mental health

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Author's Abstract: COPYRIGHT 1999 The Howarth Press, Inc. Feminist therapists value the empowerment of clients and the appropriate sharing of the therapist's institutionalized power. As therapists who are also "mandated reporters," we are obligated under certain circumstances to use our power to warn potential victims of harm, to prevent clients from harm to self or others, or make reports to institutions which have a grat impact on clients' lives. Using four case examples, this paper will present clinical situations where the use of the therapist's power interfaces with homophobia, racism, and paternalism in the lives of low-income clients. Keywords: Feminist, ethical, moral, clinical, therapy

Case studies, Community psychiatric services, Community mental health services

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Morality and responsibility: necessary components of feminist therapy

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Author's Abstract: COPYRIGHT 1999 The Howarth Press, Inc. This paper addresses the need to (1) support the personal moral belief system that each individual brings into the therapy room, (2) help the individual nourish and develop her/his own system of being in the world that is congruent with her/his sense of right, and (3) incorporate a sense of morality and responsibility into the therapy process when it is lacking. Case studies will present a dilemmas that two women faced concerning the conflict they experienced between their responsibility to their families and their responsibility to themselves. Keywords. Morality, therapy, responsibility, psychology

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