Hybrid online/ offline event (in English)

11 am Introduction / presentation of the work A Special Issue in Power by Inga Zimprich
11.30 am – 1 pm A Conversation with Gail Pheterson: Feminist Radical Therapy and Alliances Between Women, followed by Q&A

Due to the Covid regulations the number of participants on location is limited. Please register by email to office@district-berlin.com. Please state whether you plan to attend in person at District or whether you’ll join via Zoom.

In the late 1960s Radical Therapy (RT) developed in the US as a movement of therapists and activists who aimed to democratize and de-professionalize their therapeutic tools to offer them as means for social empowerment and political change. In reaction to the sexism at play in the Radical Therapist scene, marxist feminist Hogie Wyckhoff developed Problem Solving Groups for Women, in which Radical Therapy provided the framework to practice mutual support. In 1975 Gail Pheterson and Lillian Moed facilitated three week-long workshops for groups of Dutch feminists in the Netherlands. Pheterson and Moed combined two different methods in these trainings: Radical Therapy and Re-evaluation Counseling. From these workshops Feministische Oefengroepen Radikale Therapie (F.O.R.T.) sprang forth and initiated a large movement of feminist Radical Therapy groups that numerous persons in the Netherlands engaged in. As a previously active Radical Therapy practitioner Inga Zimprich uses the artistic research project A Special Issue in Power – an engagement with Radical Therapy to question whether Radical Therapy allows us to work on intersecting discriminations, such as racism, classism, hetero-/cis-sexism and ableism, in self-organized therapeutic frameworks that make all its potential practitioners feel equally safe and welcome.

Inga Zimprich (she/her) is a white, able-bodied cis-woman. Inga is an artist, deaf-blind assistant and mother. She initiated Feminist Health Care Research Group and part of Sickness Affinity Group.