Women's Growth in Connection offers a sampling of the influential idea s emanating from The Stone Center, Wellesley College, about women's me aning systems, values, and organization of experiences. These chapters , about women's ways of being in the world, frame an innovative relati onal perspective on women's psychological development. The authors--cl inicians, clinical supervisors, and teachers--have been searching for therapeutic models that more clearly reflect women's lives. They are t roubled by models of "human" development inspired by male culture, mod els that define health and maturity in terms of separation and consist ently define women as deficient.