Am J Psychiatry 1976; 133:1111-1123
Copyright © 1976 by American Psychiatric Association
Overview: research on the psychology of women. II. Women in families, work, and psychotherapy
AM Seiden
In the first part of this overview the author reviewed research on gender
differences in behavior and women's sexual and reproductive lives, and
discussed the social and intellectual context of the recent knowledge
explosion in women's studies. In this second part she reviews recent
research on selected aspects of the social psychology of women's lives.
Highlighted themes include women in relationship to family structure and
child rearing, work and achievement motivation, and implications for the
psychiatric treatment of women that can be drawn from the psychotherapy
research literature. She briefly assesses the possible impact of research
in these areas on psychiatric theory and practice.
