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Women and Madness

Women and Madness

Chesler, Phyllis (Author)

ISBN-10: 0156982951
ISBN-13: 9780156982955

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Phyllis Chesler is currently on the Board of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East and is also affiliated with Haifa and Bar Ilan UniversitiesMain Description
Feminist Icon Phyllis Chesler's Pioneering Work, Women and Madness, Remains Startlingly relevant today, over thirty years since its initial publication in 1972. With over 2.5 million copies sold, this seminal book is unanimously regarded as the definitive work on the subject of women's psychology. In this new edition, Chesler's original research and findings are supported by her perspectives on today's issues related to the subjects in the original book including: eating disorders, postpartum depression, biological psychiatry, important feminist political findings, female genital mutilation, and more. Book jacket.
Acknowledgementsp. ix
2005 Introductionp. 1
Madness
Demeter and Clytemnestra, Revisitedp. 47
Why Madness?p. 59
Women in Asylums: Four Livesp. 61
Mothers and Daughters: A Mythological Commentary on the Livesp. 78
Heroines and Madness: Joan of Arc and the Virgin Maryp. 85
Asylumsp. 93
The Mental Asylump. 93
The Female Social Role and Psychiatric Symptoms: Depression, Frigidity, and Suicide Attemptsp. 98
Schizophrenia in Three Studiesp. 109
A Theoretical Proposalp. 115
The Cliniciansp. 119
How Many Clinicians Are There in America?p. 121
Contemporary Clinical Ideologyp. 126
Traditional Clinical Ideologyp. 136
The Institutional Nature of Private Therapyp. 165
The Female Career as a Psychiatric Patientp. 173
The Interviewsp. 179
Women
Sex Between Patient and Therapistp. 191
Psychiatrically Institutionalized Womenp. 217
Lesbiansp. 237
The Interviewsp. 246
Third World Womenp. 261
The Interviewsp. 273
Feministsp. 291
The Interviewsp. 302
Female Psychology: Past, Present, and Futurep. 317
Female Psychology in Our Culture: Women Alonep. 317
Female Psychology in Our Culture: Women in Groupsp. 322
Amazon Societies: Visions and Possibilitiesp. 334
The Problem of Survival: Power and Violencep. 341
Some Psychological Prescriptions for the Futurep. 345
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Publisher: Harcourt Trade Publishers
Binding: Trade Paper
Pages: 400
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Language: English

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