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Women and madness

Phyllis Chesler (Author)
An examination of the female condition and what is called madness
Print Book, English, 1972
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Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York, 1972
xxiii, 359 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
9780385026710, 0385026714
502052
Why madness?
Asylums
Clinicians
Female career as a psychiatric patient
Sex between patient and therapist
Psychiatrically institutionalized women
Lesbians
Third world women
Feminists
Female psychology: past, present, and future