Cultural Resistance: Challenging Beliefs

Cultural Resistance: Challenging Beliefs About Men, Women, and Therapy analyzes cultural constraints and encourages therapists, individuals, and communities to practice cultural resistance on a daily basis, allowing for the realization of diverse and suppressed knowledges.

Introduction: Attending to Absence

1

(6)

Kathy Weingarten

Radical Listening: Challenging Cultural Beliefs for and About Mothers

7

(16)

Kathy Weingarten

Story

9

(1)

Discourse

10

(3)

Sue's Story: Silencing to ``Protect'' a Child from Oneself

13

(2)

Connie's Story: The Irony of Powerlessness

15

(1)

Therapist Responses

16

(5)

Conclusion

21

(2)

Out of Objectification: Comment on Kathy Weingarten's ``Radical Listening: Challenging Cultural Beliefs for and About Mothers''

23

(4)

Laura Benkov

Fathering Our Sons; Refathering Ourselves: Some Thoughts on Transforming Masculine Legacies

27

(18)

Terry Real

Timmy

28

(1)

The Myth of ``Masculine Identity''

29

(3)

Traditional Fathering as Psychological Violence

32

(2)

Active and Passive Abuse

34

(6)

Conclusion

40

(5)

Boys Will be Men: A Response to Terry Real's Paper

45

(4)

Virginia Goldner

Lesbian and Gay Parents: From Margin to Center

49

(16)

Laura Benkov

Part I: Finding an Approach to Research

50

(8)

Part II: A Question Emerges: What Is a Family?

58

(4)

Conclusion: Research and Clinical Practice in a Changing Social Context

62

(3)

Response to Laura Benkov, ``Lesbian and Gay Parents: From Margin to Center''

65

(4)

Joan Laird

A Narrative Approach to So-Called Anorexia/Bulimia

69

(28)

David Epston

Fran Morris

Rick Maisel

Steps in the Process of Getting Free of Anorexia/Bulimia

71

(1)

Breaking the Spell of Anorexia/Bulimia

71

(4)

Turning Against Anorexia/Bulimia

75

(3)

Reclaiming a Life and Making an Appearance in It

78

(2)

Post-Liberation

80

(2)

From the Archive of the Anti-Anorexia (Bulimia) League Correspondence Between Fran Morris and David Epston

82

(15)

A Letter to David Epston

97

(6)

Peggy Penn

The Discourse on Thomas v. Hill: A Resource for Perspectives on the Black Woman and Sexual Trauma

103

(16)

Jessica Henderson Daniel

History of Sexual Violence

106

(2)

Race vs. Gender and the Silencing of the Black Woman

108

(2)

Social Construction of the Black Woman

110

(2)

The Reconstruction of the Black Woman

112

(2)

Case Examples

114

(1)

Conclusion

115

(4)

The Hill/Thomas Debate as Source for Understanding the Black Woman and Sexual Trauma: A Response

119

(4)

Elaine Pinderhughes

Opening Therapy to Conversations with a Personal God

123

(18)

Melissa Elliott Griffith

The Entrapment of Knowing

125

(2)

From Certainty to Wonder

127

(10)

Conclusion

137

(4)

Response to ``Opening Therapy to Conversations with a Personal God''

141

(2)

Sallyann Roth

From Stuck Debate to New Conversation on Controversial Issues: A Report from the Public Conversations Project

143

(22)

Carol Becker

Laura Chasin

Richard Chasin

Margaret Herzig

Sallyann Roth

The Dominant Discourse in Polarized Public Debate

145

(1)

Dialogue as an Alternative to Polarized Debate

146

(1)

Bringing Clinical Skills to Work on Dialogue

147

(1)

Background on the Model

148

(1)

Out line of the Model

149

(2)

Guiding Objectives

151

(1)

Preparing Participants for a Journey into the New

152

(1)

Creating a Safe Context

153

(1)

Avoiding the Old Debate

154

(1)

Fostering Co-Creation of a New Conversation

155

(4)

Dialogue in Democracy

159

(6)

Commentary on ``From Stuck Debate to New Conversation on Controversial Issues: A Report from the Public Conversations Project''

165

Michael White

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Cultural Resistance: Challenging Beliefs About Men, Women, and Therapy

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