Silencing The Self: Women and Depression
This book is relevant to anyone grappling with the central challenge of relationships: how to achieve connections to others without losing oneself.Deborah Tannen (author of You Just Don't Understand), New York Times Book Review
This book is relevant to anyone grappling with the central challenge of relationships: how to achieve connections to others without losing oneself.Deborah Tannen (author of You Just Don't Understand), New York Times Book Review
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780060975272 (006097527X)
Publish date: January 13th 1993
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages no: 276
Edition language: English
Feminist analysis of depression, applying the insights of Carol Gilligan's In A Different Voice and Mary Belenky et. al.'s Women's Ways of Knowing to revise the standard therapeutic assessment of depressed women as dependent and overly attached. The criticism of the model of the independent self is...