Series Preface
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1. Introduction
2. History
3. Theory
4. The Therapy Process
5. Evaluation
6. Future Developments
7. Summary
Glossary of Key Terms
Suggested Readings
References
Index
About the Author
About the Series Editors
Judith V. Jordan, PhD, is the director of the Jean Baker
Miller Training Institute and founding scholar at the Stone Center
of Wellesley College. Dr. Jordan is an assistant clinical professor
of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She and colleagues
developed a relational model of human development and clinical
practice (relational–cultural theory) that emphasizes the
centrality of relationship in our lives. After graduating Phi Beta
Kappa and magna cum laude from Brown University in Providence,
Rhode Island, she earned her PhD in clinical psychology at Harvard
University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she received special
commendation for outstanding academic performance. She was the
director of psychology training as well as the director of the
women’s studies program at McLean Hospital, a Harvard Teaching
Hospital. For the past 20 to 30 years she has worked with Jean
Baker Miller, Irene Stiver, and Jan Surrey on the development of
what has come to be known as relational–cultural theory. Dr. Jordan
has published over 50 original reports, 30 chapters, coauthored
three books, and edited or coedited two books. She is the recipient
of the Massachusetts Psychology Association’s Career Achievement
Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Advancement of Psychology
as a Science and a Profession and was also selected as the Mary
Margaret Voorhees Distinguished professor at the Menninger School
of Psychiatry and Mental Health Science in the spring of 1999. She
received the annual psychiatric residents’ Outstanding Teacher of
the Year award at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts, and
she is listed in Who’s Who in America. Dr. Jordan was awarded an
honorary Doctor of Human Letters in 2001 from New England College
in Henniker, New Hampshire, with
“utmost admiration for her contribution to science and the practice
of psychology.” In 2002, she received a Special Award from the
Feminist Therapy Institute in recognition of outstanding
contributions to the development of feminist psychology. Dr. Jordan
received the 2010 Distinguished Psychologist Award from the
Division of Psychotherapy of the American Psychological
Association, which is given to only one psychologist in the United
States and Canada each year in recognition of outstanding
accomplishments and significant lifetime contributions to the field
of psychotherapy. Dr. Jordan is on the editorial board of the
Journal of Clinical Psychology: In Session and Journal of
Creativity and Mental Health. She has written, lectured, and
conducted workshops nationally and internationally on
relational–cultural theory, women’s psychological development,
gender differences, mothers and daughters, mothers and sons,
empathy, mutuality, psychotherapy, shame, connections and
disconnections, mutual empathy, marginality, diversity, courage,
vulnerability, new models of strength,
competence and connection, women’s sexuality, gender issues in the
workplace, marginalization, relational practice in the workplace,
new models of leadership, traumatic disconnections, good conflict,
competition and a relational model of self. Dr. Jordan frequently
serves as a resource for researchers and the media on these issues;
she appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show as an expert on the
importance of relationships for personal and societal well-being.
"Relational- Cultural Theory represents the most significant shift in psychodynamic thinking since Freud, moving us toward a more accurate, compassion and multi-layered understanding of women and human relationships." --Harriet Lerner, PhD, clinical psychologist, author of Dance of Anger "Dr. Jordan's work on RCT not only changes individual lives it has the power to transform the world." --Jean Kilbourne, EdD, author, speaker, and filmmaker "One of the ten most important psychological theories today." --Jon Carlson, PhD, co-editor of the Theory of Psychotherapy series
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