The Healing Connection: How Women Form Relationships in Therapy and in Life - Hardcover

Miller, Jean Baker; Striver, Irene

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807029203 ISBN 13: 9780807029206

Publisher: Beacon Press, 1997

Synopsis

Two decades after the publication of Toward a New Psychology of Women , Miller and Stiver outline its practical applications, demonstrating how women's experiences in relationships shape psychological health. They analyze the process of empathetic listening and responding, proving how such moments of connection lead to psychological growth, while the repeated experience of disconnection or the failure of empathy in relationships causes psychological problems. A new kind of psychotherapy is specified, in which the therapist becomes an active participant. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Miller and Stiver give us a soaring new vision of what matters most in our lives-authentic and mutually enhancing relationships. . . .This is a wise and wonderful book about the deepest and most precious longings that we humans experience. --Harriet Lerner, Ph.D., author of The Dance of Anger

"The Healing Connection is a welcome and long overdue synthesis and integration of the brilliant thinking of Jean Baker Miller, Irene Stiver and their colleagues at the Stone Center. . . . This book presents a quietly revolutionary shift in the basic theory of human development. . . . A fitting capstone to [the] brilliant and revolutionary [Toward a New Psychology of Women]." -Alice C. Lawler, Ph.D., Contemporary Psychology Journal

"How we form and sustain intimate relationships through crises, frailties, betrayals, deep disagreements and long arid stretches. . . . A useful lens through which to view our atomistic culture and the therapeutic process." --Martha Manning, New York Times Book Review

"Wonderfully readable . . . Miller and her colleague Irene Stiver (both legendary therapists and supervisors) have added chapter and verse documenting the importance of connection for women. . . . But whether you're a man or a woman, reading this book is almost as special as finding a really great therapist." --Alan Stone, M.D., Psychiatric Times

"A gem. . . . Pick up this very readable volume, and treat yourself to a book that is important to us, our patients, and the future of our society." --Marsha Pravder Mirkin, Ph.D., Journal of Feminist Family Therapy

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Recent Review!
"Helpful...A succinct account of why some women have difficulties entering into "growth-fostering" relationships...will be of interest to both clinicians and their clients"
--Kirkus Reviews

Edition details

• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807029203
• ISBN 13: 9780807029206
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 242
• Editor: Hooks Trisha