Women and MadnessHarcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989 - 359 pagine Feminist Icon Phyllis Chesler's Pioneering Work, Women and Madness, Remains Startlingly relevant today, over thirty years since its initial publication in 1972. With over 2.5 million copies sold, this seminal book is unanimously regarded as the definitive work on the subject of women's psychology. In this new edition, Chesler's original research and findings are supported by her perspectives on today's issues related to the subjects in the original book including: eating disorders, postpartum depression, biological psychiatry, important feminist political findings, female genital mutilation, and more. Book jacket. |
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... victims ' sexual fantasies and activities . Iso- lation , social ostracism , hydrotherapy , physical beatings , shock therapy — all psychiatric techniques — were first practiced by witch- hunters . Although the strait jacket , solitary ...
... victims ' sexual fantasies and activities . Iso- lation , social ostracism , hydrotherapy , physical beatings , shock therapy — all psychiatric techniques — were first practiced by witch- hunters . Although the strait jacket , solitary ...
Pagina 264
... victims . * Their sexuality is defined for them by men , as an act of incest for procreative purposes . In the myth , Persephone is gath- ering flowers of forgetfulness ( poppies ) when she is abducted and raped . Most women " forget ...
... victims . * Their sexuality is defined for them by men , as an act of incest for procreative purposes . In the myth , Persephone is gath- ering flowers of forgetfulness ( poppies ) when she is abducted and raped . Most women " forget ...
Pagina 281
... victims , deserving of our sympathy , understanding , and support . Conformity , inflexibility , and a tendency to romanticize the emotional infantilism and unrealistic dependencies of the powerless woman ( and to confuse it with a form ...
... victims , deserving of our sympathy , understanding , and support . Conformity , inflexibility , and a tendency to romanticize the emotional infantilism and unrealistic dependencies of the powerless woman ( and to confuse it with a form ...
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FIVE | 48 |
Schizophrenia in Three Studies | 49 |
THE CLINICIANS | 57 |
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