Women And The Psychosocial Construction Of Madness

Author : Marie Brown
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498591957
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and the Psychosocial Construction of Madness written by Marie Brown and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Jane Professor Ussher
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136656316
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Madness of Women written by Jane Professor Ussher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-03-28 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nominated for the 2012 Distinguished Publication Award of the Association for Women in Psychology! Why are women more likely to be positioned or diagnosed as mad than men? If madness is a social construction, a gendered label, as many feminist critics would argue, how can we understand and explain women's prolonged misery and distress? In turn, can we prevent or treat women’s distress, in a non-pathologising women centred way? The Madness of Women addresses these questions through a rigorous exploration of the myths and realities of women's madness. Drawing on academic and clinical experience, including case studies and in-depth interviews, as well as on the now extensive critical literature in the field of mental health, Jane Ussher presents a critical multifactorial analysis of women's madness that both addresses the notion that madness is a myth, and yet acknowledges the reality and multiple causes of women's distress. Topics include: The genealogy of women’s madness – incarceration of difficult or deviant women Regulation through treatment Deconstrucing depression, PMS and borderline personality disorder Madness as a reasonable response to objectification and sexual violence Women’s narratives of resistance This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of psychology, gender studies, sociology, women's studies, cultural studies, counselling and nursing.

Author : Phyllis Chesler
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 164160039X
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Madness written by Phyllis Chesler and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminist icon Phyllis Chesler's pioneering work, Women and Madness, remains startlingly relevant today, nearly fifty years since its first publication in 1972. With over 2.5 million copies sold, this landmark book is unanimously regarded as the definitive work on the subject of women's psychology. Now back in print, this completely revised and updated edition adds perspectives on eating disorders, postpartum depression, biological psychology, important feminist political findings, female genital mutilation, and more.

Author : Elizabeth Tobin-Tyler
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN 13 : 1284281329
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essentials of Health Justice: Law, Policy, and Structural Change written by Elizabeth Tobin-Tyler and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2022-06-17 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building and expanding upon the prior edition of Essentials of Health Justice, the new second edition of this unparalleled text explores the historical, structural, and legal underpinnings of racial, ethnic, gender-based, and ableist inequities in health, and provides a framework for students to consider how and why health inequity is tied to the ways that laws are structured and enforced. Additionally, it offers analysis of potential solutions and posits how law may be used as a tool to remedy health injustice. Written for a wide, interdisciplinary audience of students and scholars in public health, medicine, and law, as well as other health professions, this accessible text discusses both the systems and policies that influence health and explores opportunities to advocate for legal and policy change by public health practitioners and policymakers, physicians, health care professionals, lawyers, and lay people.

Author : Marie Brown
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000299503
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emancipatory Perspectives on Madness written by Marie Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-28 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection offers a diverse range of perspectives that seek to find meaning in madness. Mainstream biomedical approaches tend to interpret experiences commonly labelled "psychotic" as being indicative of a biological illness that can best be ameliorated with prescription drugs. In seeking to counter this perspective, psychosocial outlooks commonly focus on the role of trauma and environmental stress. Although an appreciation for the role of trauma has been critical in expanding the ways in which we view madness, an emphasis of this kind may nevertheless continue to perpetuate a subtle form of reductivism—madness continues to be understood as the product of a deficit. In seeking to move beyond causal-reductivism, this book explores a variety of perspectives on the question of finding inherent meaning in madness and extreme states. Contributors to this book are distinguished writers and researchers from a variety of international and interdisciplinary perspectives. Topics span the fields of depth psychology and psychoanalysis, creativity, Indigenous and postcolonial approaches, neurodiversity, mad studies, and mysticism and spirituality. This collection will be of interest to mental health professionals, students and scholars of the humanities and social sciences, and people with lived experience of madness and extreme states. Readers will come away with an appreciation of the more generative aspects of madness, and a recognition that these experiences may be important for both personal and collective healing.

Author : Michael O’Loughlin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498568343
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lives Interrupted written by Michael O’Loughlin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-07-12 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lives Interrupted: Psychiatric Narratives of Struggle and Resilience provides insight into the everyday experiences of individuals struggling with severe psychic distress during a six-month immersion program at the Fountain House headquarters, a New York-based organization that works to address the effects of serious mental illness. These narratives add complexity and objectivity to the expanding discussion of psychiatric treatment plans. Contributors to this collection argue that narratives are vital to treatment and should not be treated as secondary options to standard diagnosis and treatment practices that rely heavily on pharmaceuticals and often result in short-term revolving-door interventions for complex forms of human suffering.

Author : Hada Soria Escalante
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793605807
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking the Relation between Women and Psychoanalysis written by Hada Soria Escalante and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-09-13 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rethinking the Relation between Women and Psychoanalysis: Loss, Mourning, and the Feminine uses contemporary psychoanalytic views to resituate women as desiring subjects within the psychoanalytic narrative. Contributors to this edited collection explore the various configurations of mourning, pain, regret, and grieving in diverse societies and cultures in order to reconstruct the role of women in modern psychoanalysis. They raise questions about the status of women in culture and society and contend with themes that psychoanalysts have associated with women since the late nineteenth century, such as loss and mourning, femininity and motherhood, and desire and sexuality. This book is recommended for students and scholars of psychology, gender studies, cultural studies, literature, and philosophy.

Author : Jane M. Ussher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Madness written by Jane M. Ussher and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marilyn Charles
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351718304
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Importance of Play in Early Childhood Education written by Marilyn Charles and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Importance of Play in Early Childhood Education presents various theories of play and demonstrates how it serves communicative, developmental, and relational functions, highlighting the importance and development of the capacity to play in terms useful to early childhood educators. The book explicitly links trauma, development, and interventions in the early childhood classroom specifically for teachers of young children, offering accessible information that can help teachers better understand the meanings of children’s expressive acts. Contributors from education, psychoanalysis, and developmental psychology explore techniques of play, how cultural influences affect how children play, the effect of trauma on play, factors that interfere with the ability to play, and how to apply these ideas in the classroom. They also discuss the relevance of ideas about playfulness for teachers and other professionals. The Imprtance of Play in Early Childhood Education will be of great interest to teachers, psychoanalysts, and psychotherapists as well as play therapists and developmental psychologists.

Author : Amber M. Trotter
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498573339
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psychoanalysis as a Subversive Phenomenon written by Amber M. Trotter and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Psychoanalysis as a Subversive Phenomenon: Social Change, Virtue Ethics, and Analytic Theory, Amber M. Trotter examines the radical sociopolitical roots of psychoanalysis and contends that psychoanalytic practices can and should be used to promote social change today. Trotter illustrates how analytic theory and practice could function subversively in contemporary American culture. This book is recommended for students and scholars of psychology, sociology, political science, cultural studies, and philosophy.