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Politics of women in therapy discussed By ANN TRENEMAN Of the Emerald Two feminist therapists discus sed their techniques in dealing with women clients and how their modes of therapy differ, at times radically from traditional methods Wednesday morning during a Women's Symposium workshop, Women in Therapy. Marti Goodban, currently work ing in the Center for the Displaced Homemaker and Roberta Roth, a self-employed local therapist, ag reed and often disagreed on sa lient points throughout the two hour workshop. "Sometimes I get radical enough to say there are no intra psyche problems. It is all social,” Goodban says, adding that her views constantly fluctuate. Goodban and Roth agreed it is a personal issue and the main ques tion in counseling someone is “how much does a person’s own personal psyche problems get in the way of their goals?” Goodban says she discounts her formal training, saying, “I am still angry about it,” but Rothman says her training made her more objective. One of the many problems for male therapists dealing with women, is men seeing their own wives, mothers or lovers in their clients, Roth says. ‘‘One male therapist was trying to explain a patient to me and he kept saying If she could just get out from behind the ironing board...’ without having any idea of what put her behind the ironing board in the first place,” Roth 3* says, pointing out how important an awareness of social issues is in therapy. Both women use a “contract”, employ group sessions and use gestalt and transactional analysis in their work. I believe in putting women to gether in groups to help each other,' Goodban says, adding that the approach dilutes her own power as a therapist. “So often there is this miscon ception that the person is a dummy and the therapist a guru of sorts,” she says. Roth says the main symptom of the women who sought her help used to be depression, but now it is ‘women saying ‘I want to be more aware of myself. I’m func tioning fine. Now I want to enjoy.’ ” “The first step with anyone is how to get the basic goals,” Roth says. She adds that one client works with improving her sentence structure, simply be cause she could never actually say what she wanted without going off on tangents. Today s schedule Women’s Symposium Dance Improvisation Kate Tracy Nutritional Needs of Women 3HO, Sat Rattan Kaur Khatsa Luclnia — Birth Center Polarity Yoga Judtti Undsy Sweet Honey. Alee Gerrard & Lyda Mendoza Caesarian Birth Group Current Approaches to Rape panel Taking Our Bodies Back dim Mothers of Multipies Personal Growth and Female Sexualty panel Vision Sharing Workshop Joy Gardner 9-10 a.m. EMU Ballroom 9- 10 am. EMU Forum 9:30-10:30 am. Room 106 10- 11:30 am. EMU Forum 10- 12 noon Room 214 10:30-11:30 a.m. Room 106 1030-noon Dad's Room 11- noon Room 101 11:30-noon Room 106 noon-1:30 Dad’s Room 12:30-2:30 p.m. Room 101 Keep Listening 1-2 p.m. Marcia Munson Room 108 Woman as Divine’ Crescent/Hearl Ensemble The Bkth Co-op panel 130-2:30 p.m. EMU Forum 1 30-3:00 p.m. Dads Room Planned Parenthood 2:30-330 p.m. Room 112 Naturopathic First Wd in the Home Birthri^it of Eugene Rolling Kata Tracy "Spectrum of One" New Mime Ensemble Women and Physical Chalenge Kate Jessup Jazz Gig: Sapphire 2:30-4:30 p.m. Room 101 3:30-4:30 p.m. Room 108 4- 530 p.m. Room 112 430-6:30 EMU Forum 5- 6 p.m. 350 Gertnger Annex 6- 6 p.m. EMU Fishbowl Parenting Workshop Psychic Heelng Laeh Garfield Self Hefp Workshop for Women Vki ShHaos Lamaze Childbirth Orsparalon Classical Music Concert "Three Centuries of Musk by Women Composers’’ Continuing Women s Art ExNblt Free Child Care 630-830 p.m. Room 101 6:30-6:30 p.m. EMU Forum 7- 6 p.m. YWCA Lounge 8- 9 p.m. Room 106 8 p.m. Beal Had noon-8 p.m. Room 167 9:30-5:30 p.m. PI Kappa Alpha. 818 E. 15th St. 6 p.m.-l5 minutes alter the last event Child Cara and Development Center. 1511 Moes Childbirth education class offered The Lane County Community Health and Social Services De partment will offer a series of childbirth education classes on Wednesday beginning tonight and ending May 24. Classes will be held from 7-9 p.m. at the Florence Office, Courthouse Annex, Flor ence. The fee for the series of seven classes is $5 per couple. Couples are encouraged to attend, but classes are open to singles, friends and all interested persons. Thomson Motor’s Specializing in Triumph, Norton, BSA & Honda. 1898 E. 1301 344-1224 Among the discussion topics are prenatal care, fetal develop ment, labor and delivery, nutrition and characteristics of the new born. For more information, call 997-8217. - AfLund Press Co) Summer at Oregon It’s yours for the asking A
