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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... therapy, lobotomized, and above all, unnecessarily described as too aggressive, promiscuous, depressed, ugly, old, angry, fat, or incurable. “Maybe AWP could set up an alternative to a mental hospital with the money,” I said, “or a ...
... therapy, lobotomized, and above all, unnecessarily described as too aggressive, promiscuous, depressed, ugly, old, angry, fat, or incurable. “Maybe AWP could set up an alternative to a mental hospital with the money,” I said, “or a ...
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... therapy spanned a quarter-century, coast to coast. And so I began to document how patriarchal culture and consciousness had shaped human psychology for thousands of years. I was charting the psychology of women who, as a caste, did not ...
... therapy spanned a quarter-century, coast to coast. And so I began to document how patriarchal culture and consciousness had shaped human psychology for thousands of years. I was charting the psychology of women who, as a caste, did not ...
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... therapy and/or diagnostically pathologized at trial; (3) Women (and men) who have no money and no insurance cannot afford therapy nor are they always respected or understood by therapists who are mainly middleclass in orientation; (4) ...
... therapy and/or diagnostically pathologized at trial; (3) Women (and men) who have no money and no insurance cannot afford therapy nor are they always respected or understood by therapists who are mainly middleclass in orientation; (4) ...
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... therapy anyway. Actually, these days, very few people can. Most early feminist theories about women were really about white, heterosexual, middle-class, educated women. By denition, such theories rendered both poor and wealthy women ...
... therapy anyway. Actually, these days, very few people can. Most early feminist theories about women were really about white, heterosexual, middle-class, educated women. By denition, such theories rendered both poor and wealthy women ...
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... therapist—always a therapist. Nevertheless, in the 1950s and 1960s, a number of leading psychoanalysts married their most beautiful, troubled, brilliant, and adoring patients. Some marriages worked out; others didn't. At the time, no ...
... therapist—always a therapist. Nevertheless, in the 1950s and 1960s, a number of leading psychoanalysts married their most beautiful, troubled, brilliant, and adoring patients. Some marriages worked out; others didn't. At the time, no ...
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