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Kaethe Weingarten, PhD (1947–)
Introduction
Kaethe Weingarten is a leading voice on a range of issues, including compassionate witnessing, radical listening, responding to political violence, hope as action, intimacy, illness, feminism, parenting, and mothering. She advocates that people’s personal and professional lives be viewed as political and exemplifies it in her writing and engagement with life. She has authored 7 books and over 100 articles, chapters, and professional educational materials. She serves on the editorial boards of seven academic journals and works with emerging authors.
Career
Weingarten graduated Junior Phi Beta Kappa and with distinction from Smith College and received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology and Public Practice from Harvard University in 1974. She started her academic career at Wellesley College and was appointed Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School in 1981. There, she ran a family...
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Weingarten, K. (Ed.). (1995). Cultural resistance: Challenging cultural beliefs about men, women, and therapy. New York: The Haworth Press.
Weingarten, K. (2000). Witnessing, wonder and hope. Family Process, 39(4), 389–402.
Weingarten, K. (2003). Common shock: Witnessing violence everyday: How we are harmed, how we can heal. New York: Dutton.
Weingarten, K. (2004). Witnessing the effects of political violence in families: Mechanisms of intergenerational transmission of trauma and clinical interventions. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 30(1), 45–59.
Weingarten, K. (2006). On hating to hate. Family Process, 45, 277–288.
Weingarten, K. (2010a). Reasonable hope: Construct, clinical applications and support. Family Process, 49, 5–25.
Weingarten, K. (2010b). Intersecting losses: Working with the inevitable vicissitudes in therapist and client lives. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training, 47, 371–384.
Weingarten, K. (2010c). Hope in a time of global despair. New Zealand Journal of Counseling, 30(1), 1–14.
Weingarten, K. (2012). Sorrow: A therapist’s reflection on the inevitable and the unknowable. Family Process, 51, 440–455.
Weingarten, K. (2014). The “cruel radiance of what is”: Helping couples live with chronic illness and disability. Family Process, 52, 83–101.
Weingarten, K. (2016). The art of reflection. Family Process, 55, 195–210.
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Bava, S. (2018). Weingarten, Kaethe. In: Lebow, J., Chambers, A., Breunlin, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15877-8_1010-1
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