Women & Psychosis

Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Marie Brown, Marilyn Charles (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2022
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-9193-5 (ISBN)

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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 to first-person perspectives of the women themselves.

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.

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

Chapter 1. Women and Madness in Context Chapter 2. Explicate or Relate: Recognizing and Differentiating Literary Madwomen

Chapter 3. Stories

Chapter 4. Snakes in the Crib: Psycho-Social Factors in Postpartum Psychosis

Chapter 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 Symptom

Chapter 7. From Sick to Gifted: Discovering Shamanic Illness

Chapter 8. Psychosis in Women: A Perspective from Psychiatry

Chapter 9. Schizophrenia in Women as Compared to Men: Theories to Help Explain the Difference

Erscheinungsdatum	10.03.2022
Reihe/Serie	Psychoanalytic Studies: Clinical, Social, and Cultural Contexts
Co-Autor	Jessica Arenella, Berta Britz, Nicola Byrne
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 219 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychosen
ISBN-10	1-4985-9193-0 / 1498591930
ISBN-13	978-1-4985-9193-5 / 9781498591935
Zustand	Neuware