Skip to main content
Log in

The age of androgyny: The new views of psychotherapists

  • Published:
Sex Roles Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Male therapists no longer engage in sexual stereotyping in their views of mentally healthy men and women as 15 previous studies had shown. Both male and female therapists, both psychiatrists and psychologists, held a single androgynous standard of mental health for both men and women. Psychologists scored higher on this androgyny factor than psychiatrists. Therapists with many women patients scored higher on this androgyny factor than therapists with few women patients.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Anastasi, A., & Foley, J. P. Differential psychology. New York: Macmillan, 1949.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bem, S. L. Probing the promise of androgyny. In A. G. Kaplan & J. P. Bean (Eds.), Beyond sex-role stereotypes: Readings to ward a psychology of androgyny. Boston: Little Brown, 1976.

    Google Scholar 

  • Broverman, I. K., Broverman, D. M., Clarkson, F. E., Rosenkrantz, P., & Vogel, S. R. Sex-role stereotypes and clinical judgements of mental health. Journal of Consulting Psychology, 1970, 34, 1–7.

    Google Scholar 

  • Broverman, I. K., Vogel, S. R., Broverman, D. M., Clarkson, F. E., & Rosenkrantz, P. S. Sex-role stereotypes; A current appraisal. Journal of Social Issues, 1972, 28, 59–78.

    Google Scholar 

  • Fernberger, S. W. Persistence of stereotypes concerning sex differences. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 1948, 43, 97–101.

    Google Scholar 

  • Fliegel, Z. O. Half a century later: Current status of Freud's controversial views of women. Psychoanalytic Review, 1982, 69.

  • Kravetz, D., & Jones, L. E. Androgyny as a standard of mental health. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 1981, 51, 502–509.

    Google Scholar 

  • Maxfield, R. B. Sex-role stereotypes of psychotherapists (Doctoral dissertation, Adelphi University). Dissertation Abstracts International, 1976, 37, 1914B. (University Microfilms No. 76–22, 816)

  • Rosenkrantz, P., Vogel, S., Bee, H., Broverman, I., & Broverman, D. Sex role stereotypes and self-concepts in college students. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1968, 32, 287–295.

    Google Scholar 

  • Salzman, L. Feminine psychology revisited, circa 1970. American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 1971, 41, 123–133.

    Google Scholar 

  • Seward, G. H. Sex and the social order. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1946.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sherman, J. Therapist attitudes and sex-role stereotyping. In A. Brodsky & A.T. Hare-Mustin (Eds.), Women and psychotherapy: An assessment of research. New York: Guilford Press, 1980.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wellman, J. M. Some thoughts on the psychohistorical study of women. Psychohistory Review, 1978, 7, 20–24.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wylie, R. The self-concept. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1961.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Thomas, C. The age of androgyny: The new views of psychotherapists. Sex Roles 13, 381–392 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00287949

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00287949

Keywords

Navigation