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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... told me that jokes had been made about my “penis envy.” I started writing Women and Madness on the plane back to New York. I immersed myself in the psycho-analytic literature, located biographies and autobiographies of women who'd been ...
... told me that jokes had been made about my “penis envy.” I started writing Women and Madness on the plane back to New York. I immersed myself in the psycho-analytic literature, located biographies and autobiographies of women who'd been ...
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... told to grow physically smaller. Some mental health experts believe that girls and women who refuse to eat (or who binge-eat and throw up) are engaging in a selfdestructive protest against the contradictory cultural demands that they ...
... told to grow physically smaller. Some mental health experts believe that girls and women who refuse to eat (or who binge-eat and throw up) are engaging in a selfdestructive protest against the contradictory cultural demands that they ...
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... Greenspan, author of A New Approach to Women and. erapy. (1983) and the extraordinary Healing. rough. the Dark Emotions: e. Wisdom of Grief, Fear, and Despair (2003), was told by her supervisors that “professionals (if they.
... Greenspan, author of A New Approach to Women and. erapy. (1983) and the extraordinary Healing. rough. the Dark Emotions: e. Wisdom of Grief, Fear, and Despair (2003), was told by her supervisors that “professionals (if they.
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Phyllis Chesler. (2003), was told by her supervisors that “professionals (if they are female) must wear brassieres, that excessive anger in a woman was a sign of a character disorder, that an inordinate preoccupation with spiritual ...
Phyllis Chesler. (2003), was told by her supervisors that “professionals (if they are female) must wear brassieres, that excessive anger in a woman was a sign of a character disorder, that an inordinate preoccupation with spiritual ...
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... told, both by psychologists and psychiatrists, that they are probably imagining their pain, that their illness is all in their heads. O en it is not. While I also believe that psyche and soma are one, I know that viruses, parasites ...
... told, both by psychologists and psychiatrists, that they are probably imagining their pain, that their illness is all in their heads. O en it is not. While I also believe that psyche and soma are one, I know that viruses, parasites ...
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