Woman changing woman - Virginia Beane Rutter

Offering a compelling vision of psychotherapy by and for women as a sacred space for self-realization and attunement, this book demonstrates the unique interaction between the woman therapist and woman patient. Around the world, throughout time, cultures have celebrated the mother-daughter relationship, and created rituals around the transformative events of a woman's life - the onset of puberty, defloration, conception, childbirth, nursing and menopause. Today, significant feminine rituals are missing, or they exist in trivialized form.;This book connects the practices, myths and archetypal images of cultures, both past and present (the Navajo, Neolithic Catal, Huyuk and Ancient Greek) to the life experiences, dreams and therapeutic processes of three contemporary women. In doing so, it traces the emotional, physical and spiritual journey of each "heroine" who, through the dynamic relationship with her female therapist, and her individual process of inititation, transformation, healing and self-awareness, takes up the task of all women.