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Description

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.

Table of Contents

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

Product details

Published Jul 02 2021
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 246
ISBN 9781498591966
Imprint Lexington Books
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Marie Brown

Anthology Editor

Marilyn Charles

Contributor

Noel Hunter

Contributor

Harshad Keval

Contributor

Debra Lampshire

Contributor

Casadi Marino

Contributor

Ilona Melker

Contributor

Erin Soros

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