ABSTRACT
Feminist criticism of psychotherapy prompted a re-evaluation of the field in the early 1970s. The result of this re-evaluation was the development of feminist therapy. Feminist therapy's central tenet of the importance of socio-cultural factors in the psychology of all women is its most obvious positive contribution to the effective delivery of mental health services for women of color. Women of color by virtue of their constant exposure to instances of racism and sexism are frequently in touch with their anger. The strong tenet of feminist therapy that sexism always creeps into the therapy context when the therapist is male and the client is female is paralleled by the differences in race/ethnicity/class between client and therapist in feminist cross-cultural therapy. All the threads of the social context are interwoven in the tapestry of therapy, and it is essential for good therapy that attention is paid to all of them.
