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When feminists started the process of pinpointing aspects of traditional psychoanalysis and psychotherapy that had been detrimental to women, the question of what might constitute a therapy relationship which would be helpful to women was also carefully considered. The very establishment of the Women’s Therapy Centre was based, in part, on the idea that there was a particular value for a woman in having a therapy relationship with another woman, someone like herself. At the Centre this discussion has continued as thought is given to whether particular groups of women, such as Black women or lesbians or disabled women, may need to see women who are ‘like’ them, whether the structure of the actual therapy relationship may have to be modified or whether what is needed is awareness of and sensitivity to the effects of a particular social experience on the therapy relationship.
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Ernst, S. (1997). The therapy relationship. In: Lawrence, M., Maguire, M., Campling, J. (eds) Psychotherapy with Women. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25615-0_2
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