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Women and the Psychosocial Construction of Madness

Marie Brown, Marilyn Charles (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
246 Seiten
2021
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-9196-6 (ISBN)
CHF 59,95 inkl. MwSt
Women and the Psychosocial Construction of Madness focuses on the gendered experience of madness within patriarchal power structures. Spanning disciplines like mad studies, psychoanalysis, sociology, and critical theory, this collection explores the interaction between the social and the psyche as it relates to marginalized women’s mental health.
Women and the Psychosocial Construction of Madness focuses on the question of madness as it is experienced by women within gendered sociopolitical contexts. Contributors to this edited collection engage with a diverse range of topics, including black and ethnic minority women’s experiences of psychosis, psychosis in transwomen, sexual trauma and psychosis, the doctor–patient relationship, and women’s experiences of mental health treatment and recovery. Chapters span the disciplines of psychoanalysis, sociology, women’s studies, critical theory, and madness studies.

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

Chapter 1. Race, Gender, and Psychosis

Chapter 2. Mourning and Melancholia in Transwomen: Inscription and the Risk for Melancholic Psychosis

Chapter 3. My Monster, My Self

Chapter 4. Sabina Spielrein and Frau M: Two Historical Cases of Female Psychoses

Chapter 5. Lucia

Chapter 6. The Locust of Words and the Locus of Saying: Femininity and Psychosis

Chapter 7. I Call this Institutionalized Rape

Chapter 8. The Scarlet Diagnosis: Trauma, Psychosis, and Pathologizing the Feminine

Chapter 9. Being of Sound Mind

Chapter 10. Faith: A Woman Interrupted

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Psychoanalytic Studies: Clinical, Social, and Cultural Contexts
Co-Autor Noel Hunter, Harshad Keval, Debra Lampshire
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 153 x 219 mm
Gewicht 349 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Klinische Psychologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 1-4985-9196-5 / 1498591965
ISBN-13 978-1-4985-9196-6 / 9781498591966
Zustand Neuware
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