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Nowadays many women seek therapeutic groups with which to integrate current concepts from the women's liberation movement. They wish to achieve a
female role awareness, a sense of equality but not identity with the male, acknowledgment and open pursuit of sexual desires, and social acceptance. These women feel that they are handicapped by cultural factors rather than by anatomical lack and they resent their secondary occupations. They frankly seek a male partner but not necessarily a marital relationship. They are active, purposeful, and well informed, although many are confused about sexuality and the achievement of orgasm. They insist on being seen as open and trustworthy with each other.
In group therapy it is seen that in order to obtain love the female must take risks. The women's complaints of fear of male associates are viewed as a resistance to talking about sex. They realize that in marriage and child rearing, difficulties arise from their lack of self-esteem. The new female self-concept helps diminish woman's anxiety, narcissistic isolation, and self-depreciation.