Women and MadnessChicago Review Press, 4 set 2018 - 432 pagine Feminist icon Phyllis Chesler's pioneering work, Women and Madness, remains startlingly relevant today, nearly fifty years since its first publication in 1972. With over 2.5 million copies sold, this landmark book is unanimously regarded as the definitive work on the subject of women's psychology. Now back in print, this completely revised and updated edition adds perspectives on eating disorders, postpartum depression, biological psychology, important feminist political findings, female genital mutilation, and more. |
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... involved in “careers” as psychiatric patients, was either ignored, treated merely as a sensation, or sharply criticized, by those in positions of power within the professions. My statistics and theories were “wrong,” I had “overstated ...
... involved in “careers” as psychiatric patients, was either ignored, treated merely as a sensation, or sharply criticized, by those in positions of power within the professions. My statistics and theories were “wrong,” I had “overstated ...
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... involvement in the mental health system, but also the re-traumatization that occurred as a patient in ve hospitals. I survived solitary connement for two weeks, without clothing, and with only a rubber mattress and blanket. I survived ...
... involvement in the mental health system, but also the re-traumatization that occurred as a patient in ve hospitals. I survived solitary connement for two weeks, without clothing, and with only a rubber mattress and blanket. I survived ...
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... mental illness” statistics. ese chapters document the extent to which women, more than men, and in greater numbers than their existence in the general population would predict, are involved in “careers” as psychiatric.
... mental illness” statistics. ese chapters document the extent to which women, more than men, and in greater numbers than their existence in the general population would predict, are involved in “careers” as psychiatric.
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Phyllis Chesler. general population would predict, are involved in “careers” as psychiatric patients: women who are depressed, anxious, agoraphobic, and who are having “nervous breakdowns,” crying ts, temper tantrums, paranoid delusions ...
Phyllis Chesler. general population would predict, are involved in “careers” as psychiatric patients: women who are depressed, anxious, agoraphobic, and who are having “nervous breakdowns,” crying ts, temper tantrums, paranoid delusions ...
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... involved with problems of powerlessness, evil, and love than is the rest of the human race. I speak in many voices throughout this book: as a psychological researcher, theoretician, and clinician—and as a literary and philosophical ...
... involved with problems of powerlessness, evil, and love than is the rest of the human race. I speak in many voices throughout this book: as a psychological researcher, theoretician, and clinician—and as a literary and philosophical ...
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