Gender in Psychotherapy: How Does the Literature Portray the Power Dynamics in a Female Therapist-male Client Dyad?

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dc.contributor.advisorRodgers, Brian
dc.contributor.authorDumitrache, Adina
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-14T21:22:01Z
dc.date.available2016-11-14T21:22:01Z
dc.date.copyright2016
dc.date.created2016
dc.date.issued2016
dc.date.updated2016-11-14T04:15:35Z
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation aimed to reveal and explore how the reviewed literature portrayed the gendered power dynamics that may play out in a psychotherapeutic alliance between a female therapist and a male client. This research offers an investigation of the literature on male gender roles socialisation, and how men's distinctive ways of communicating their emotions may influence their attitudes towards therapy, and towards female therapists in particular. It also offers an understanding of the concept of power and how the inherent power differential in psychotherapy may contribute to the imbalance of power between female therapists and male clients. Alternatively, the study explores the transference and countertransference phenomena that may emerge in the female therapist-male client dyad. The data was examined from the perspective of female therapists working with male clients. Finally, the purpose of this research is to support the psychotherapy practice and training by offering an understanding of the gendered power dynamics that may occur in a female therapist-male client dyad.en_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10292/10155
dc.language.isoenen_NZ
dc.publisherAuckland University of Technology
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccess
dc.subjectGenderen_NZ
dc.subjectFemale therapisten_NZ
dc.subjectMale clientsen_NZ
dc.subjectMaternal transferenceen_NZ
dc.subjectPaternal transferenceen_NZ
dc.subjectSexual feelingsen_NZ
dc.subjectPower dynamicsen_NZ
dc.subjectErotic transferenceen_NZ
dc.subjectPsychotherapy practiceen_NZ
dc.subjectPsychotherapy trainingen_NZ
dc.subjectGender socialisationen_NZ
dc.subjectMale aggression in psychotherapyen_NZ
dc.titleGender in Psychotherapy: How Does the Literature Portray the Power Dynamics in a Female Therapist-male Client Dyad?en_NZ
dc.typeDissertation
thesis.degree.grantorAuckland University of Technology
thesis.degree.levelMasters Dissertations
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Psychotherapyen_NZ
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