Experiences with a self-analytic seminar are reported, examining the nature of its development through stages and its impact on sex-role stereotypes and gender interactions among participants and with the seminar leaders. Relationships between feminist thought and psychoanalysis are explored. The positive influence on recognition of mutual needs among the sexes is qualitatively supported.
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