Madelien Krips (1941)

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: Madelien Krips (1941) : Case text: : Feministisch therapeute Madelien Krips (1941) doet iets wat ze haar hele leven nog niet gedaan heeft: thuiszitten. Ze is even moe en dat valt te begrijpen want ze is haar hele leven op pad geweest voor een betere wereld, beter vooral voor de vrouwen en daardoor uiteindelijk ook voor de mannen. Na haar studie psychologie ging zij werken in de vrouwenhulpverlening en werd zij medeoprichtser van de Dolle Mina's. Woede was haar motor. De boodschap van haar moeder:"als je je niet aanpast, krijg je geen man" zet haar nekharen nog overeind. Nu is zij lid van de club Vermoeide Heldinnen, vrouwen die veel geknokt en ook veel bereikt hebben maar nu "burned out" zijn. En met lede ogen ziet zij aan hoe een nieuwe generatie vrouwen stuk loopt op de mannen. : +++ Jan’s analysis : Feministic dutch therapist; currently suffering from ‘burnout’ herself. She explains her life line of feministic behavior as an outlet for her anger, wanting to make women feel more confident by training them being assertive. She also gives the explanation that when she was a child she was imprisoned with her mother in a Japanese concentration camp for women in Indonesia and saw here that women were forced to bend before the few Japanese soldiers in the camp. When back in The Netherlands at school she formed a girls group called ‘the liberated amazones’ and pushed her girlfriends to hunt in a ‘pack’ on boys and make them beg for mercy, then they let them go (without any reason it seems.) : She describes herself as a girl who was very difficult for her parents, asked critical questions on the contrast between the posh facade behavior and the immoral things which people did but were kept ‘under the hat’ in public. She stared so angrily at teachers that she managed to be send away from school two days before the final exams. Then she went to another school where boys and girls had different sleeping rooms and at night had steamy sexual encounters; she didn’t participate at these (being allways the critical outsider), but read a lot books and practiced lesbian love (initially only a platonic relation.) She joint the womans lib movement and had ‘fun’ at putting glue to the doors of whorehouses so that they couldn’t be opened, started training woman to be strong (including fight training!) etcetera. Her self description is: a person who allways had a quarrel, who didn’t join with what others proposed to do (which she thought was stupid), who is a good observer and fiercely critical of other peoples actions and words, someboy who was allways ‘contrary’, having structural feelings of discomfort, an annoying person, a difficult, troublesome person. She had a lesbian relation when grown up, then a heterosexual one with a rather submissive, caring man, who then became her ‘friend’, living next to her as neighbour. : I would say that such a sulky, nitpicking, pouting and negativistic/pessimistic style would best be described by Oldham’s Leisurely Style (DSM Negativistic/Passive-agressive). During the interview she seemed to be good in sucking away the enthusiasm of the interviewer when he thought he had found an interesting conclusion or idea on her. Kinda sabotaging others feelings of happiness, perhaps unconsciously because when other people feel not so good the Leisurely person feels relatively better? : Because so easily people who crossed her path became objects of scorn and contempt, spotting inconsistencies, the Agressive Style of character would be her secondary style. Dramatic style could be of tertiary importance (attention drawing). : Jan

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