November/December 2022

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Editor's Note

Livia Kent

Many sociologists are calling it “the female happiness paradox,” arguing that greater opportunities for work have meant that women’s workloads—as workers inside and outside the home—have doubled, so of course we’re stressed out and unhappy.
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Fair Play

Fair Play at Home

Are Women Still Carrying the Heavier Load?

Lauren Dockett

Eve Rodsky is on a mission: to rebalance the "mental load" that many women still unfairly shoulder in domestic life, affecting their physical health, relationship satisfaction, and emotional well-being. Read More
Daring to Dance

Daring to Dance

How Can We Help Women Take Pleasure?

Alicia Muñoz

Pleasure-taking connects women to their bodies, roots them in the present, and fosters resilience. What could be blocking today's women from such a seemingly basic part of life? Read More
Lucie Fielding

Embracing Gender-Pleasure

How to Feel Yummy in Our Bodies

Lucie Fielding

For trans folks, attuning to gender-pleasure allows them to resist harmful cultural scripts—but it can be a radical act of resistance for cis folks too. Read More
Supporting Women’s Voices

Supporting Women's Voices

Carol Gilligan on Today's Patriarchy

Lauren Dockett

More than 50 years after feminist psychologist Carol Gilligan's pivotal study on how women think about the choices in their lives, she speaks up about our current political climate. Read More
Taking the Podium: The Growing Influence of Women of Psychotherapy

Taking the Podium

The Growing Influence of Women in Psychotherapy

Lynn Grodzki & Margaret Wehrenberg

Despite an increasing diversity in race and ethnicity, the psychotherapy field is primarily filled with women—a reversal that's taken place over the last 50 years. What can we make of this trend? Read More
The Postpartum Experience

The Postpartum Experience

What Therapists Need to Know

Julie Bindeman

Many therapists don't realize that treating depression or anxiety generally isn't the same as treating these mood disorders in the perinatal period. Read More
Love is an Action Verb

Love Is An Action Verb

The Body Work of Mothering

Angela Garbes

Before we learn verbal language, we communicate through our bodies, making mothering a physical act of love. Read More

Extra Feature

Alexandra Solomon

Symposium Highlight

The Couple Who Changed Me

Help Can Come from Unexpected Sources

Alexandra Solomon

The strongest couples are the ones who are open to help—the ones who can surround themselves with allies, inviting others into the trenches with them. Read More

Departments

Practice Tools: November/December 2022

Practice Tools

Practice Tools

The best from across the field of psychotherapy . . . on us!

Practice Tools for the November/December 2022 issue are courtesy of Eve Rodsky and Fair Play. Read More