ABSTRACT

This chapter explores feminist therapy and considers it in the context of psychodynamic models and its significance to relational ethics when working with adult survivors of childhood abuse. (I have not attempted here to define abuse. See Walker, 2003: 1-5 for an exploration of definitions.) Finally, I will consider some of the many ethical questions and relationship challenges that arise in the course of this work. Throughout, I have used the terms therapy and counselling, therapist and counsellor interchangeably.