Changing Our Minds

Lesbian Feminism and Psychology

Author: Celia Kitzinger
Secondary Author: Rachel Perkins
ISBN: 0814746462

Women today are being instructed on how they can raise their self-esteem, love their inner child, survive their toxic families, overcome codependency, and experience a revolution from within. By holding up the ideal of a pure and happy inner core, psychotherapists refuse to acknowledge that a certain degree of unhappiness or dissatisfaction is a routine part of life and not necessarily a cause for therapy. Lesbians specifically are now guided to define themselves according to their frailties, inadequacies, and insecurities. An incisive critique of contemporary feminist psychology and therapy, Changing our Minds argues not just that the current practice of psychology is flawed, but that the whole idea of psychology runs counter to many tenets of lesbian feminist politics. Recognizing that many lesbians do feel unhappy and experience a range of problems that detract from their well-being, Changing Our Minds makes positive, prescriptive suggestions for non-psychological ways of understand

Publisher: NYU Press
Publish Date: 1993-09-01

Subjects: Psychology / Human Sexuality, Social Science / Lesbian Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Cross-Cultural Center (Location: LGBT+/Queer (LGBT)), Women's Center (Location: Psychology/Emotional Health)