Judith V Jordan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4890940 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Judith V Jordan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Judith V |
| FAMILY NAME | Jordan |
| SIGNATURE | JORDAN J V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wellesley College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Jean Baker Miller, MD, Visionary Pragmatist
Jean Baker Miller’s 1976 book, Toward a New Psychology of Women, was an overnight success. It struck a deep chord in many women because it was based on listening to women’s stories. Instead of seeing women through the lens of male psychology with its emphasis on separation and autonomy, Jean suggested that relationships are central to women’s experience of themselves and the world. Traits that were typically pathologized (needing other people, at…
Creating Connection: A Relational-Cultural Approach With Couples
The Power of Connection: Recent Developments in Relational-Cultural Theory
Losing Certainty and Finding Voice: One Therapist's Reflections on Doing Therapy in the Last Third of Life
In this autobiographical and personal paper, the author addresses her development of voice and confidence in a relational model of healing over a period of 35 years. Departing from the “objective” and impersonal journal style typically privileged in peer-reviewed journals, this article places the development of relationship at the center of therapeutic change. It honors the question “who tells the story and who does the telling serve?” Thus a ret…
Commitment to Connection in a Culture of Fear
This article was originally presented at the May 2004 Learning from Women Conference sponsored by Harvard Medical School and the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute. It examines the ways in which cultural and personal denial of fear and vulnerability contribute to a sense of isolation. Fear is manipulated in hierarchical settings to ensure the preservation of existing power arrangements. In a culture built on exploitation of fear, people do not …
Recent Developments in Relational-Cultural Theory
(2008). Recent Developments in Relational-Cultural Theory. Women & Therapy: Vol. 31, No. 2-4, pp. 1-4
Valuing Vulnerability: New Definitions of Courage
In a dominant, Western culture that celebrates strength in separation and holds unrealistic expectations for independent, autonomous functioning, vulnerability is seen as a handicap. This system creates the illusion of an invulnerable and separate self, and uses individualistic standards to measure a person's worth. Since these unrealistic expectations cannot be humanly attained, these controlling images become the source of shame and disconnecti…
Learning at the Margin: New Models of Strength
This article was originally presented at the April, 2000 Learning from Women Conference sponsored by the Harvard Medical School and the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute. It explores the ways in which marginalization and the use of power-over maneuvers and privilege contribute to disconnection at a personal and societal level. Strength in vulnerability is proposed as an alternative to strength in isolation. The author suggests that courage is …
The Relational Health Indices: A Study of Women's Relationships
A new measure of women's relationships, the Relational Health Indices (RHI), comprises three scales that assess growth-fostering connections with peers, mentors, and communities. The RHI was developed using the Relational Model (Jordan, Kaplan, Miller, Stiver, Surrey, 1991; Miller & Stiver, 1997), a theory of women's psychological development. The 37-item measure assesses three conceptual dimensions of growth-fostering relationships: engagement, …
Autonomy and Connectedness as Dimensions of Relationship Styles in Men and Women
This study identified a trichotomy of styles that characterize adults' relationships with partners: self-focused autonomy, other-focused connection, and mutuality. Each style was defined by several dimensions; dominance-submission, whose needs are met, sensitivity to the partner's feelings, clarity of feelings, separateness vs intimacy, and concern with the relationship. Participants were adults, aged 18-70 years, who responded to a newspaper sur…
A Relational Approach to Psychotherapy
New models of women's development posit that women grow through and toward relationship rather than toward self-sufficiency and separation. This contributes to an ongoing vulnerability to the suffering of disconnection and loss. Relational therapy, based on this understanding, points to the need for mutual empathy and the establishment of transformative connection in the therapeutic relationship to assist clients in their movement out of the suff…
The Relational Health Indices: A Study of Women's Relationships
A new measure of women's relationships, the Relational Health Indices (RHI), comprises three scales that assess growth-fostering connections with peers, mentors, and communities. The RHI was developed using the Relational Model (Jordan, Kaplan, Miller, Stiver, Surrey, 1991; Miller & Stiver, 1997), a theory of women's psychological development. The 37-item measure assesses three conceptual dimensions of growth-fostering relationships: engagement, …
Autonomy and Connectedness as Dimensions of Relationship Styles in Men and Women
This study identified a trichotomy of styles that characterize adults' relationships with partners: self-focused autonomy, other-focused connection, and mutuality. Each style was defined by several dimensions; dominance-submission, whose needs are met, sensitivity to the partner's feelings, clarity of feelings, separateness vs intimacy, and concern with the relationship. Participants were adults, aged 18-70 years, who responded to a newspaper sur…
Recent Developments in Relational-Cultural Theory
(2008). Recent Developments in Relational-Cultural Theory. Women & Therapy: Vol. 31, No. 2-4, pp. 1-4
A Relational Approach to Psychotherapy
New models of women's development posit that women grow through and toward relationship rather than toward self-sufficiency and separation. This contributes to an ongoing vulnerability to the suffering of disconnection and loss. Relational therapy, based on this understanding, points to the need for mutual empathy and the establishment of transformative connection in the therapeutic relationship to assist clients in their movement out of the suff…
Valuing Vulnerability: New Definitions of Courage
In a dominant, Western culture that celebrates strength in separation and holds unrealistic expectations for independent, autonomous functioning, vulnerability is seen as a handicap. This system creates the illusion of an invulnerable and separate self, and uses individualistic standards to measure a person's worth. Since these unrealistic expectations cannot be humanly attained, these controlling images become the source of shame and disconnecti…
Commitment to Connection in a Culture of Fear
This article was originally presented at the May 2004 Learning from Women Conference sponsored by Harvard Medical School and the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute. It examines the ways in which cultural and personal denial of fear and vulnerability contribute to a sense of isolation. Fear is manipulated in hierarchical settings to ensure the preservation of existing power arrangements. In a culture built on exploitation of fear, people do not …
Losing Certainty and Finding Voice: One Therapist's Reflections on Doing Therapy in the Last Third of Life
In this autobiographical and personal paper, the author addresses her development of voice and confidence in a relational model of healing over a period of 35 years. Departing from the “objective” and impersonal journal style typically privileged in peer-reviewed journals, this article places the development of relationship at the center of therapeutic change. It honors the question “who tells the story and who does the telling serve?” Thus a ret…
Learning at the Margin: New Models of Strength
This article was originally presented at the April, 2000 Learning from Women Conference sponsored by the Harvard Medical School and the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute. It explores the ways in which marginalization and the use of power-over maneuvers and privilege contribute to disconnection at a personal and societal level. Strength in vulnerability is proposed as an alternative to strength in isolation. The author suggests that courage is …
A Relational Approach to Psychotherapy
New models of women's development posit that women grow through and toward relationship rather than toward self-sufficiency and separation. This contributes to an ongoing vulnerability to the suffering of disconnection and loss. Relational therapy, based on this understanding, points to the need for mutual empathy and the establishment of transformative connection in the therapeutic relationship to assist clients in their movement out of the suff…
Autonomy and Connectedness as Dimensions of Relationship Styles in Men and Women
This study identified a trichotomy of styles that characterize adults' relationships with partners: self-focused autonomy, other-focused connection, and mutuality. Each style was defined by several dimensions; dominance-submission, whose needs are met, sensitivity to the partner's feelings, clarity of feelings, separateness vs intimacy, and concern with the relationship. Participants were adults, aged 18-70 years, who responded to a newspaper sur…
The Relational Health Indices: A Study of Women's Relationships
A new measure of women's relationships, the Relational Health Indices (RHI), comprises three scales that assess growth-fostering connections with peers, mentors, and communities. The RHI was developed using the Relational Model (Jordan, Kaplan, Miller, Stiver, Surrey, 1991; Miller & Stiver, 1997), a theory of women's psychological development. The 37-item measure assesses three conceptual dimensions of growth-fostering relationships: engagement, …
Commitment to Connection in a Culture of Fear
This article was originally presented at the May 2004 Learning from Women Conference sponsored by Harvard Medical School and the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute. It examines the ways in which cultural and personal denial of fear and vulnerability contribute to a sense of isolation. Fear is manipulated in hierarchical settings to ensure the preservation of existing power arrangements. In a culture built on exploitation of fear, people do not …
Recent Developments in Relational-Cultural Theory
(2008). Recent Developments in Relational-Cultural Theory. Women & Therapy: Vol. 31, No. 2-4, pp. 1-4
Valuing Vulnerability: New Definitions of Courage
In a dominant, Western culture that celebrates strength in separation and holds unrealistic expectations for independent, autonomous functioning, vulnerability is seen as a handicap. This system creates the illusion of an invulnerable and separate self, and uses individualistic standards to measure a person's worth. Since these unrealistic expectations cannot be humanly attained, these controlling images become the source of shame and disconnecti…
Learning at the Margin: New Models of Strength
This article was originally presented at the April, 2000 Learning from Women Conference sponsored by the Harvard Medical School and the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute. It explores the ways in which marginalization and the use of power-over maneuvers and privilege contribute to disconnection at a personal and societal level. Strength in vulnerability is proposed as an alternative to strength in isolation. The author suggests that courage is …
Losing Certainty and Finding Voice: One Therapist's Reflections on Doing Therapy in the Last Third of Life
In this autobiographical and personal paper, the author addresses her development of voice and confidence in a relational model of healing over a period of 35 years. Departing from the “objective” and impersonal journal style typically privileged in peer-reviewed journals, this article places the development of relationship at the center of therapeutic change. It honors the question “who tells the story and who does the telling serve?” Thus a ret…
The Power of Connection: Recent Developments in Relational-Cultural Theory
Creating Connection: A Relational-Cultural Approach With Couples
Jean Baker Miller, MD, Visionary Pragmatist
Jean Baker Miller’s 1976 book, Toward a New Psychology of Women, was an overnight success. It struck a deep chord in many women because it was based on listening to women’s stories. Instead of seeing women through the lens of male psychology with its emphasis on separation and autonomy, Jean suggested that relationships are central to women’s experience of themselves and the world. Traits that were typically pathologized (needing other people, at…
Psychology (9 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics (4 works) · Disconnection (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Miller (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works)