Psychotherapy grounded in the feminine principle

Trade paperback; xiii + 205 pp., including bibliographic references and an index. Contents: Preface Chapter 1: The feminine principle Chapter 2: The art of psychotherapy Chapter 3: The archetypal foundations of the therapeutic process Chapter 4: Psychotherapy grounded in the feminine principle Chapter 5: The role of the masculine Chapter 6: An archetypal perspective Chapter 7: Two clinical examples Chapter 8: The disliked patient Chapter 1 begins, "It is the thesis of this book that therapeutic work of all theoretical persuasions has been significantly impaired by the dominant cultural imbalance between the masculine and the feminine principles. Good therapists--Freudian, Jungian, Interpersonalist or whatever--must do much of their best work in opposition to a severe cultural bias that denigrates nurturing, receptive, accommodating behavior and idealizes active, assertive, controlling behavior."