LETTER TO A FRIEND - A REFLECTION ON CONNECTEDNESS AND NAMING

In a letter to her younger friend, Elizabeth reflects on topics that a rose when she and Barbara met for lunch. These include the emergent gr oups of women who gather intentionally to explore their own spirituali ty, and groups of women who gather and unintentionally create communit y. She sees the shared power in these groups as being politically oppo sed to the vested power of the therapist in the psychotherapy dyad. Mo dels of ''mentally healthy'' females are to be found in the writings o f feminists whose works emerge from the socio-cultural and economic ma trix of their own experiences.