The Couch Talks Back

Reviews the book, Women in Therapy edited by Violet Franks and Vasanti Burtle (1974). While the book is about women, it is not strongly feminist. In fact, the most radical feminist viewpoints about therapy are not represented. The book covers an exciting array of the newer therapies as applied to women: Miriam Polster on Gestalt therapy, Akhter Ahsen on eidetic analysis, Albert Ellis on rational-emotive therapy, George R. Bach on fight-therapy, Arnold Lazarus on behavior therapy, Barbara Kirsh on consciousness-raising groups as therapy, and Aaron Beck and Ruth Greenberg on cognitive therapy with depressed women. Other special groups dealt with are the female homosexual, women in prisons and mental hospitals, the female alcoholic, and men and women of the lower classes. The book is an excellent one that can be recommended as a must for all those interested in therapy of women. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)