![]() ![]() ![]() Women today are being instructed on how they can raise their self-esteem, love their inner child. Recognizing that many lesbians do feel unhappy and experience a range of problems that detract from their well-being, Changing Our Minds makes positive, prescriptive suggestions for non-psychological ways of understanding and dealing with emotional distress. Changing Our Minds: Lesbian Feminism and Psychology (Cutting Edge) by Celia Kitzinger available in Hardcover on, also read synopsis and reviews. An incisive critique of contemporary feminist psychology and therapy, Changing our Minds argues not just that the current practice of psychology is flawed, but that the whole idea of psychology runs counter to many tenets of lesbian feminist politics. Lesbians specifically are now guided to define themselves according to their frailties, inadequacies, and insecurities. By holding up the ideal of a pure and happy inner core, psychotherapists refuse to acknowledge that a certain degree of unhappiness or dissatisfaction is a routine part of life and not necessarily a cause for therapy. Summary: "Women today are being instructed on how they can raise their self-esteem, love their inner child, survive their toxic families, overcome codependency, and experience a revolution from within. ![]()
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