Main description:

* This book goes beyond theoretical material to include clinical and personal perspectives from a broad range of highly accomplished women psychotherapy group leaders
* This book explores the following objectives: the development of psychotherapy group leader identity among women, unique challenges female leaders face due to social adaptation that influence transference and countertransference around themes of nurturance and power, aspects of how female-identified group leaders experience their power and authority in relationship to their groups, different transferences/projections a woman leader might be faced with, as well as topics related to intersectionality, and the impact of gender-binary assumptions on group leadership and dynamics
* Practical application for training and group leadership as well as significant theoretical and social value

Contents:

Introduction; Chapter 1: Unwelcoming and Group Process; Chapter 2: Spirituality and Struggle as Sources of Strength and Power for African American Women: Implications for Group Therapy Leadership; Chapter 3: Belonging: Queer: Theory's Contribution to Modern Analytic Groups; Chapter 4: Training Elastigirl: Developing Strength and Flexibility in Female Group Psychotherapists; Chapter 5: A Very Civilized Tea Party: A Leader's Resistance to Aggression in a Women's Group; Chapter 6: From Chrysalis to Butterfly: Women Leading Women from Silence to Power; Chapter 7: Redefining Female Power: The Myth of the Selfless Therapist; Chapter 8: Cinderella, The Wicked Queen, and Glinda Walk into a Group: Countertransference Resistance and the Female Group Leader; Chapter 9: Liberating Ambition in Women Group Psychotherapists; Chapter 10: Women Sharing the Power Seat: Equity and Equanimity in Co-leading Groups; Chapter 11: Brown, Barriered, Bold: One Therapist's Story of Leadership; Chapter 12: Vulnerability & Violence: Female Group Leadership, the Social Unconscious, & the #MeToo Movement; Chapter 13: The Significance and Importance of Repairing Empathic Failures; Chapter 14: Currents of Countertransference: Rage, Shame, and Wise-Mind Group Leadership; Chapter 15: Donning the (Super [-Marginalized] Woman) Cape: Facilitating Group as a BIPOC Woman; Chapter 16: Systems-Centered Training for Group Leaders: Weakening Social Survivor Roles that Undermine Women (and Men) in Leadership; Chapter 17: "You're Not What I Expected": Addressing the Unsaid as an Asian American Female Group Therapist; Chapter 18: Courage to Lead: The Shadow of Racism on Women of Color Leading Psychotherapy Groups; Index.