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Relational Individualism and Feminist Therapy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Jennifer Radden
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My aim here is to clarify the practice of honoring and validating the relational model of self which plays an important role in feminist therapy. This practice rests on a tangle of psychological claims, moral and political values, and mental health norms which require analysis. Also, severe pathology affects the relative “relationality” of the self. By understanding it we can better understand the senses of autonomy compatible with and even required for a desired relationality.

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Hypatia , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , Summer 1996, pp. 71 - 96
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Copyright © 1996 by Hypatia, Inc.

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