The Complexity of Connection:
Writings from the Stone Center's Jean Baker Miller Training Institute

Judith Jordan, Maureen Walker, and Linda M. Hartling

In this third volume, published by The Guilford Press, founding scholars and new voices expand and deepen the Institute's widely embraced psychological theory of connection as the core of human growth and development. Demonstrating the increasing sophistication of relational-cultural theory (RCT), the volume presents an absorbing and practical examination of connection and disconnection at both individual and societal levels. The book explores how experiences of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, class, and gender influence relationships, and how people can connect across difference and disagreement. Also discussed are practical implications of the theory for psychotherapy, for the raising of sons, and for workplace and organizational issues.

Paperback: $18.95; Book Number 22

How Connections Heal:Stories from Relational-Cultural Therapy

Maureen Walker and Wendy Rosen

This practice-oriented casebook, published by The Guilford Press, shows how relational-cultural theory (RCT) translates into therapeutic action. The book explains key concepts of RCT and demonstrates their application with diverse individuals, couples, families, and groups, as well as in institutional settings. Emphasizing that relationship is the work of therapy, case narratives illuminate both the therapist and client factors that promote or interfere with movement toward connection. Highlighted are the ways in which cultural contexts profoundly influence relationships; how growthful connection inevitably includes conflict; and how experienced therapists work on a moment-by-moment basis to engage with and counteract personal and cultural forces of disconnection.

Paperback: $23; Book Number 21

The Complete Guide to Mental Health for Women

Lauren Slater, Ed. D., Jessica Henderson Daniel, Ph.D., and Amy Elizabeth Banks, M.D. (Eds.)

Written for and by women from diverse backgrounds and experiences, this new reference book integrates the latest thinking in psychology and psychiatry to provide a comprehensive and readable overview of psychological topics of particular concern to women. It explores major issues and biological changes associated with a woman's growth and development from young adulthood to old age. It addresses women's sexuality, relationships, motherhood and childlessness, trauma, and illness and discusses how social contexts, such as poverty and racism, affect mental health. Offering readily accessible descriptions of psychological problems, it identifies specific periods in which women may be particularly vulnerable to mental illness. In addition, it takes a closer look at treatment options and identifies life enhancements that can help women live fuller, more satisfying lives. Along with other perspectives, several chapters highlight the value of taking a relational approach to understanding and promoting women's psychological health.

Hardback: $24.95; Book Number 20

Disappearing Acts:
Gender, Power, and Relational Practice at Work

Joyce Fletcher, DBA

This book is about relational work and the disappearing acts that render these skills - and the people who use them - invisible in today's workplace.

"Here is something truly new. This book can change our understanding of what work is and how it can be best done. It offers both a profound vision and clear practical applications." - Jean Baker Miller, M.D.

Hardback: $24.95; Book Number 15

We Have to Talk:
Healing Dialogues Between Women and Men

Samuel Shem, M.D. &
Janet Surrey, Ph.D.

"Few clinicians generate such profound excitement and produce such radical change in the couples they work with as this dynamic husband-wife team. We Have to Talk is a groundbreaking work that will take both men and women to new levels of intimacy."
- Terrence Real, Ph.D.

Price: $23.00; Book Number 11

Mothering Against the Odds: Diverse Voices of Contemporary Mothers

Edited by
Cynthia Garcia Coll, Ph.D.,
Janet Surrey, Ph.D. &
Kathy Weingarten, Ph.D.

"Groundbreaking, heartbraking, and ultimately inspiring work about a scandalously neglected subject." - Paula Caplan, Ph.D.

"This excellent volume brings to light the marginalization of different kinds of mothers, whom society both labels and rejects."
- T. Berry Brazelton, M.D.

Paperback: $18.95; Book Number 14

The Healing Connection: How Women Form Relationships in Therapy and In Life

Jean Baker Miller, M.D. &
Irene Pierce Stiver, Ph.D.

"A soaring vision of what matters most in our lives--authentic and mutually enhancing relationships...A wise and wonderful book about the deepest and most precious longings that we humans experience. - Harriet Lerner, author of The Dance of Anger

"A gem of a book...Important...to the future of our society." - Marsha Pravder Mirkin, Journal of Feminist Family Therapy

Paperback: $14.00; Book Number 8

Women's Growth in Connection:
Writings From the Stone Center

Judith V. Jordan, Ph.D.,
Alexandra G. Kaplan, Ph.D.,
Jean Baker Miller, M.D., Irene Stiver, Ph.D. & Janet L. Surrey, Ph.D.

(Includes Working Papers: 1-5, 9, 11-14, 16, 17, 20, 23, 26 & 30) Women's Growth in Connection offers a sampling of the influential ideas emanating from the Stone Center at Wellesley College about women's meaning systems, values, and organization of experiences. By offering a new (relational) perspective on women's development, this book takes its place in the ongoing feminist examination and reshaping of psychological theory and practice.

Paperback: $19.95; Book Number 2

Women's Growth in Diversity:
More Writings From the Stone Center

Judith V. Jordan, Ph.D., Editor

"This excellent, important collection shows the vitality of the Stone Center Project and reveals the development of a revolutionary women's psychology. Diversity is the human condition, and these papers take substantial steps toward brining it into central focus." - Carol Gilligan, Ph.D., author of In A Different Voice

"A brilliant and essential book, grounded in compassion and rooted in the real world of female experience." - Harriet Lerner, Ph.D., author of The Dance of Anger

Paperback: $19.95; Book Number 7