Feminisation of Psychotherapy – Perspectives on Psychotherapy-training: Some more thoughts to a theme opened by Eva Jaeggi

Authors

  • Brigitte Schigl

Abstract

Summary: This article pursues the reflections initiated by Eva Jaeggi (Psychotherapie-Wissenschaft, 4, 87–95, 2014) on the feminisation of psychotherapy. It focuses on the situation in training courses of psychotherapeutic candidates, in which nearly 80% of the participants are female. What this means for the candidates, the teaching therapists and the training institutes is outlined here. This leads to the main conclusion that we cannot stick to a balanced ratio of female to male teaching therapists in group self-awareness trainings and that the reflection of gender dynamics has to take place in all possible gender combinations.

Keywords: Psychotherapy, psychotherapy training, gender, feminisation of psychotherapy

Author Biography

Brigitte Schigl

Brigitte Schigl, Dr.in MSc. Prof.in, freie Praxis als Klinische und Gesundheitspsychologin, Psychotherapeutin und Supervisorin. Lehrende am Department für Psychotherapie und biopsychosoziale Interventionen der Donau-Universität Krems, Lehrtherapeutin und Lehrsupervisorin, Forschungsschwerpunkt Gender.

 

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Published

2016-07-28

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Schigl, B. (2016). Feminisation of Psychotherapy – Perspectives on Psychotherapy-training: Some more thoughts to a theme opened by Eva Jaeggi. Psychotherapie-Wissenschaft, 6(1), 52–60. Retrieved from https://psychotherapie-wissenschaft.info/article/view/273

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Vol. 6 No. 1 (2016): Freie Themen

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