The Gender Revolution: Expanding the Heroic
Instructors: Lawrence E. Hedges
Course Description:
The heroic has yet to be expanded to include what women most value—relationships, everyday life, and an appreciation of diversity. How is this expanded vision of the heroic attained, sustained, or lost by the daily choices made in the lives of women and men? Cultural and psychological changes in roles, expectations, and relational conflicts are being articulated clearly today by women creative writers. Focusing on a different book each month, we seek to understand the shifting concerns of the gender revolution as it affects us as psychotherapists and in our personal lives.
Learning Goals:
Ø Learn to identify women’s unique psychological experiences from many different perspectives including cultural, familial, relational, temporal, sexual, physical, spiritual, and creative.
Ø Learn how culture shapes who we are as individuals and what obstacles, inspirations, and challenges reside within our cultural experience.
Ø Learn from the deep wellsprings of creative women how relationships shape the psyche of women and help give expression to who they are becoming and what they desire.
Ø Learn how relational issues defined by creative writers can be used to enrich the psychotherapy experience.
Meet the first Tuesdays of each month 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. beginning October, 2007. Tuition for the year (12 hours of continuing education credit is $275) including the non-refundable $75 registration fee with the balance to be paid in 2 installments of $100.
Judith Viorst. (1986). Necessary Losses. The Free Press.
November 2007:
Kiran Desai. (2006). The Inheritance Of Loss. Grove Press
December 2007:
Lucy Grealy. (1994). Autobiography Of A Face. Harper Perennial.
January 2008:
Anne Tyler. (1982). Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant. Ballantine Books
February 2008:
Laurie Colwin. (1983). A Big Storm Knocked It Over. Perennial.
March 2008:
Dorothy Allison. (1992). Bastard Out Of Carolina. Plume
April 2008:
Hope Edelman. (1994). Motherless Daughters: A legacy of Loss. Delta Trade Paperbacks
May 2008:
John Irving. (1989). A Prayer For Owen Meany. Ballantine Books.