ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses some aspects of a feminist critique of systemic family therapy, and considers their compatibilities as well as their irreconcilable differences. One might say that it is easy enough to do good feminist therapy with an individual woman. Whilst there exists a considerable body of feminist critique in regard to other psychotherapeutic approaches, in particular psychoanalysis, it is only that family therapists have started addressing the issues in the literature, in workshops, and perhaps most difficult of all, in day-to-day practice. Issues become much more complex when one is also concerned with the interactional systems of men and women, whether because one if working with couples and families, or because of taking a systemic view of working with individuals. If the feminist goals of changed relationships and a changed society are to be realized, also have to address therapy with male clients, and therapy with couples and families.
