Women and the Psychosocial Construction of Madness

Herausgeber: Brown, Marie; Charles, Marilyn

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Psychoanalytic Studies: Clinical, Social, and Cultural Contexts
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 393g
• ISBN-13: 9781498591966
• ISBN-10: 1498591965
• Artikelnr.: 61194772

Autorenporträt

Edited by Marie Brown and Marilyn Charles - Contributions by Noel Hunter; Harshad Keval; Debra Lampshire; Casadi Marino; Ilona Melker; Alvaro D. Moreira; Michael O'Loughlin; Erin Soros and Manya Steinkoler

Inhaltsangabe

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