Women & Psychosis

Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Marie Brown, Marilyn Charles (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

226 Seiten

2019
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-9191-1 (ISBN)

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Women & Psychosis is an edited collection that examines the intersection of two marginalized identities, those of women and those deemed “psychotic”. Told from a multitude of perspectives, Women & Psychosis brings multidisciplinary thought to the subject, from psychiatrists and clinicians tofirst-person perspectives of the women themselves.

Interrogating the relationship between women and psychosis from a variety of perspectives, this edited collection explores personal, literary, spiritual, psychological, biological and psychodynamic approaches. Chapter themes include explorations of medieval mystics and witches, postpartum psychosis, disordered eating, art and literature, feminism, and male/female differences in schizophrenia. Women with lived experience of psychosis, psychotherapists, and a shaman provide personal accounts to ground the book in lived experience. Curated with the intent to expand the way we think about women and psychosis, the contributions to this title recognize that ‘voices and visions’ do not occur in a vacuum but are experienced within, and are influenced by, particular socio-cultural contexts.

Marie Brown is clinical psychology doctoral candidate at Long Island University and co-founder of the Hearing Voices Network NYC. Marilyn Charles is staff psychologist at the Austen Riggs Center and practicing psychoanalyst.

Chapter 1. Women and Madness in Context
Chapter 2. Explicate or Relate: Recognizing and Differentiating Literary Madwomen
Chapter 3. Stories
Chapter 4. Snakes in the Crib: Psycho-Social Factors in Postpartum Psychosis
Chapter 5. Disordered Eating and Disordered Thinking in Women: A Continuum in Objectification in Anorexia and Psychosis
Chapter 6. Mystics, Witches or Hysterics? The Therapeutic Stakes When Spirituality Becomes a Symptom
Chapter 7. From Sick to Gifted: Discovering Shamanic Illness
Chapter 8. Psychosis in Women: A Perspective from Psychiatry
Chapter 9. Schizophrenia in Women as Compared to Men: Theories to Help Explain the Difference

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Psychoanalytic Studies: Clinical, Social, and Cultural Contexts
Co-Autor	Jessica Arenella, Berta Britz, Nicola Byrne
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 229 mm
Gewicht	522 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychosen
ISBN-10	1-4985-9191-4 / 1498591914
ISBN-13	978-1-4985-9191-1 / 9781498591911
Zustand	Neuware