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Feminist Therapy and Resources on Feminist Therapy

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1) What is feminist therapy?

2) What are some resources that serve as a good starting place for learning more about feminist therapy?

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This solution defines feminist therapy and provides resources to learn more about it.

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It is-a counseling approach that recognizes gender as the most basic organizing principle in Western society.

It views psychological distress as caused primarily by external circumstances rather than factors within the person and recognizes that oppression due to gender-role socialization, race, class, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation can contribute significantly to individual problems and distress.

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