Woman Changing Woman: Feminine Psychology Re-Conceived Through Myth and Experience - Hardcover

Rutter, Virginia Beane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0062507486 ISBN 13: 9780062507488

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1993

Synopsis

Around the world, throughout time, cultures have marked the intimate and transformative events of a woman's life - the onset of puberty, her first sexual experience, conceptian, childbirth, menopause - with myths and rituals. Today, such significant feminine rituals are missing, but these transitions still profoundly affect a woman's body, mind, and soul.
Offering a compelling vision of psychotherapy as a sacred space for women's rites of passage, Jungian analyst Virginia Beane Rutter brilliantly illuminates the emotional lives of women.
"Woman-to-woman therapy," writes Beane Rutter, "is the ritual container for the lost feminine in our culture." Modeling on intrinsically female pattern of change, woman-to-woman therapy is a process involving stages of containment, transformation, and emergence. It is a place for a woman to uncover and make conscious the motivating stories and myths in her individual psyche. Here, a woman has the opportunity to listen to her own voice perhaps for the first time.
With insight and understanding, Beane Rutter connects the practices, myths, and archetypal images of cultures post and present (the Navajo, Neolithic Catal Huyuk, and Ancient Greek) to the life experiences, dreams, and therapeutic processes of three contemporary women. In so doing, she traces the emotional, physical, and spiritual journey of the "cultural heroine" who, through her individual process of initiation, transformation, healing, and self-awareness, courageously takes up the task of all women.

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Synopsis:

Offering a compelling vision of psychotherapy by and for women as a sacred space for self-realization and attunement, this book demonstrates the unique interaction between the woman therapist and woman patient. Around the world, throughout time, cultures have celebrated the mother-daughter relationship, and created rituals around the transformative events of a woman's life - the onset of puberty, defloration, conception, childbirth, nursing and menopause. Today, significant feminine rituals are missing, or they exist in trivialized form. This book connects the practices, myths and archetypal images of cultures, both past and present (the Navajo, Neolithic Catal, Huyuk and Ancient Greek) to the life experiences, dreams and therapeutic processes of three contemporary women. In doing so, it traces the emotional, physical and spiritual journey of each "heroine" who, through the dynamic relationship with her female therapist, and her individual process of inititation, transformation, healing and self-awareness, takes up the task of all women.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0062507486
• ISBN 13: 9780062507488
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1