Women & Psychosis (eBook)

Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Marilyn Charles, Marie Brown (Herausgeber)

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2019
232 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-9192-8 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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Interrogating the relationship between women and psychosis from a variety of perspectives, this edited collection explores personal, literary, spiritual, psychological, biological, and psychodynamic approaches. The contributors reflect on medieval mystics and witches, postpartum psychosis, disordered eating, art and literature, feminism, and male/female differences in schizophrenia. Women with experience of psychosis, psychotherapists, and a shaman provide first-person accounts to give the book a personal grounding. Curated with the intent to expand the way we think about women and psychosis, the contributors to this collection recognize that ';voices and visions' do not occur in a vacuum, but are experienced within, and are influenced by, particular socio-cultural contexts.

Autor

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.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Women and Madness in Context Chapter 2. Explicate or Relate: Recognizing and Differentiating Literary MadwomenChapter 3. StoriesChapter 4. Snakes in the Crib: Psycho-Social Factors in Postpartum PsychosisChapter 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 SymptomChapter 7. From Sick to Gifted: Discovering Shamanic IllnessChapter 8. Psychosis in Women: A Perspective from PsychiatryChapter 9. Schizophrenia in Women as Compared to Men: Theories to Help Explain the Difference

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.3.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Psychoanalytic Studies: Clinical, Social, and Cultural Contexts
• Co-Autor: Jessica Arenella, Berta Britz, Nicola Byrne, Liane F. Carlson, Simone Ciufolini, Helen DeVinney, Gogo Ekhaya Esima, Mary V. Seeman
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychosen
• Schlagworte: Feminism • Gender • Madness • Psychiatry • Psychologgy of Women • Psychosis • Women
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-9192-2 / 1498591922
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-9192-8 / 9781498591928