The Boston Globe
These are voices that are changing the way all women are heard and seen....Every woman who ever feels dissatisfied with life, angry, depressed, or misunderstood, and every man who cares about a woman who says she feels that way, and every psychotherapist needs this book.


Harriet Goldhor Lerner, Ph.D., author of The Dance of Intimacy
The work of the Stone Center represents the most significant epistemological shift in psychoanalytic thinking since Freud, transforming not only WHAT we think, but also HOW we think about female development. The authors inspire us to join with them to bring theory and clinical practice closer to the real world of female experience and to approach this challenge with courage, integrity, curiosity, and heart. In both content and spirit, this is a most revolutionary work.


Judith Lewis Herman, M.D., author of Trauma and Recovery
Traditional psychology devalues and mystifies women. The work of the Stone Center revalues and illuminates.


Review
"A welcome gift for anyone who needs a new, more convenient collection of already published working papers from the Stone Center or for those who are not familiar with this body of work. The center''s relational psychology is indispensable, a mainstay for any mental health professional who works with women. Whether one agrees with these psychologists'' psychoanalytic framework, one simply cannot do without their contributions to the psychology of women." --Affilia, Journal of Women and Social Work

"Some of the best of the new feminist psychological writing. Issues like anger and dependency get another definition from women''s experiences."
--Waterwheel

"This book provides a major contribution towards understanding women''s development." --Psychotherapy in Private Practice

"These are voices that are changing the way all women are heard and seen....Every woman who ever feels dissatisfied with life, angry, depressed, or misunderstood, and every man who cares about a woman who says she feels that way, and every psychotherapist needs this book." --The Boston Globe



Review
"A welcome gift for anyone who needs a new, more convenient collection of already published working papers from the Stone Center or for those who are not familiar with this body of work. The center's relational psychology is indispensable, a mainstay for any mental health professional who works with women. Whether one agrees with these psychologists' psychoanalytic framework, one simply cannot do without their contributions to the psychology of women." --Affilia, Journal of Women and Social Work

"Some of the best of the new feminist psychological writing. Issues like anger and dependency get another definition from women's experiences."
--Waterwheel

"This book provides a major contribution towards understanding women's development." --Psychotherapy in Private Practice

"These are voices that are changing the way all women are heard and seen....Every woman who ever feels dissatisfied with life, angry, depressed, or misunderstood, and every man who cares about a woman who says she feels that way, and every psychotherapist needs this book." --The Boston Globe



Book Description
Overly emotional, hysterical, dependent, frivolous, fickle... Why have women been so consistently defined as deficient in maturity, self-mastery, and independence according to the models of human development inspired by male culture? The authors of WOMEN''S GROWTH IN CONNECTION, a sampling of the influential working papers from the Stone Center, Wellesley College, have sought to answer this question by studying developmental theory and reformulating it to reflect women''s experience more accurately. These papers, about women''s ways of being in the world, frame an innovative relational perspective on women''s psychological development. The authors--clinicians, clinical supervisors, and teachers--have been searching for therapeutic models that take into account women''s meaning systems, values, and organization of experiences, all of which often revolves around relationships rather than the self. By offering a new perspective on women''s development, WOMEN''S GROWTH IN CONNECTION stands at the forefront of the ongoing feminist movement to examine and reshape psychological theory and practice. The authors offer this volume as an invitation to the reader to join in the building of new models of women''s development.



About the Author
Judith Jordan, Ph.D., is Director of Training and Founding Scholar at the Jean Baker Miller Institute, the Stone Center, Wellesley College, and Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School.



Excerpted from Women's Growth in Connection: Writings from the Stone Center by Janet L. Surrey, Judith V. Jordan, Alexandra G. Kaplan, Jean Baker Miller, Irene P Stiver. Copyright © 1991. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
I. A Developmental Perspective
1. The Development of Women's Sense of Self, Miller
2. Women and Empathy: Implications for Psychological Development and Psychotherapy, Jordan, Surrey, & Kaplan
3. The "Self-in-Relation": A Theory of Women's Development, Surrey
4. Empathy and Self Boundaries, Jordan
5. The Meaning of Mutuality, Jordan
6. Beyond the Oedipus Complex: Mothers and Daughters, Stiver
7. Women's Self in Development in Late Adolescence, Kaplan, Klein, & Gleason
II. Applications
8. The Meanings of "Dependency" in Female-Male Relationships, Stiver
9. Relationship and Empowerment, Surrey
10. The Construction of Anger in Women and Men, Miller
11. Women and Power, Miller
12. The "Self-in-Relation": Implications for Depression in Women, Kaplan
13. Work Inhibitions in Women, Stiver
14. Eating Patterns as a Reflection of Women's Development, Surrey
15. The Meaning of Care: Reframing Treatment Models, Stiver
16. Female or Male Therapists for Women: New Formulations: Kaplan
17. Empathy, Mutuality, and Therapeutic Change: Clinical Implications of a Relational Model, Jordan

FROM THE PUBLISHER