Women and madness
Feminist icon Chesler's pioneering work--2.5 million copies sold--revised and updated for the first time in 30 years. This definitive book was the first to address critical questions about women and mental health. Combining patient interviews with an analysis of women's roles in history, society, and myth Chesler concludes that there is a terrible double standard when it comes to women's psychology. In this new edition, she addresses head-on many of the most relevant issues to women and mental health today, including eating disorders, social acceptance of antidepressants, addictions, sexuality, postpartum depression, and more. Fully revised and updated, Women and Madness remains as important today as it was when first published in 1972
Print Book, English, 2005
1st ed., rev. and updated View all formats and editions
Palgrave Macmillan, New York, N.Y., 2005
x, 406 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9781403968975, 1403968977
61303502
Madness
Demeter and Clytemnestra, revisited
1. Why madness?
Women in asylums : four lives
Mothers and daughters : a mythological commentary on the lives
Heroines and madness : Joan of Arc and the Virgin Mary
2. Asylums
The mental asylum
The female social role and psychiatric symptoms : depression, frigidity, and suicide attempts
Schizophrenia in three studies
A theoretical proposal
3. The clinicians
How many clinicians are there in America?
Contemporary clinical ideology
Traditional clinical ideology
The institutional nature of private therapy
4. The female career as a psychiatric patient
The interviews
Women
5. Sex between patient and therapist
6. Psychiatrically institutionalized women
7. Lesbians
The interviews
8. Third World women
The interviews
9. Feminists
The interviews
10. Female psychology : past, present, and future
Female psychology in our culture : women alone
Female psychology in our culture : women in groups
Amazon societies : visions and possibilities
The problem of survival : power and violence
Some psychological prescriptions for the future
Thirteen questions