Views on therapists’ attraction have influenced the ethical and professional development of the mental health fields. Because the majority of therapist attraction literature (63.6%) has been conducted from a psychoanalytic standpoint, approaches to attraction from feminist perspectives have not been adequately developed. Considering the lack of a feminist voice regarding attraction, this articl...

Abstract The feminist movement in the United States like other countries has tried to establish equality for women. From the first attempts to gain constitutional right for vote, up to the current radical demands, feminists have struggled to make changes in the U.S. party politics and obtain their rights within the parties. One of the important issues in which women played a key role in party ...

this study concerns to analyze femininity identity by psychoanalysis approach of lacan. psychoanalysis is certainly one of the most areas of debate within feminist artists. the main question of this research is: “how does video art show the femininity identity?” so, initially we tried to categorize different influential concepts of lacan’s psychoanalysis which is necessary to get to know his at...

there are opponents and proponents in the new debate on feminine and masculine literature. opponents emphasize nonsexual nature of literature, and feminist and proponents of research from different perspectives have arrived at the conclusion that feminine and masculine literatures are different. in order to find the answer to the question “does gender affect literature”, we examined and analyze...

This manuscript focuses on four potential stumbling blocks in the multicultural feminist couple treatment of African-American, same-gender loving female adult child sexual abuse survivors: (1) gender roles; (2) "coming out" to self, family, and the community; (3) lesbian couple relationships; and (4) the expression of lesbian sexuality. These four potential barriers to therapeutic outcome withi...