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Female Authority: Empowering Women Through Psychotherapy, by Polly Young-Eisendrath and Florence L. Wiedemann. New York: Guilford, 1987, 242 pp., $25.00.
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Female Authority: Empowering Women Through Psychotherapy, by Polly Young-Eisendrath and Florence L. Wiedemann.
Polly Young-Eisendrath and Florence L. Wiedemann have written an intriguing book, Female Authority: Empowering Women Through Psychotherapy. Their principal thesis, an admirable one indeed, is that women must accept or reclaim the authority for successful living in a patriarchal world. The therapy they devise is based primarily on Jungian psychology, although they acknowledge