Author: Chesler, Phyllis
Price: $15.02
Category:Mental Health
Publication Date:2018-09-04T00:00:01Z
Pages:432
Binding:Paperback
ISBN:10:1641600365
ISBN:13:9781641600361
Front Cover — Title Page — Copyright — Contents — Acknowledgements — 2005 Introduction — Madness — Demeter and Clytemnestra Revisited — One — Why Madness? — Women in Asylums: Four Lives — Mothers and Daughters: A Mythological Commentary on the Lives — Heroines and Madness: Joan of Arc and the Virgin Mary — Two — Asylums — The Mental Asylum — The Female Social Role and Psychiatric Symptoms: Depression, Frigidity, and Suicide — Schizophrenia in Three Studies — A Theoretical Proposal — Three — The Clinicians — How Many Clinicians Are There in America? — Contemporary Clinical Ideology — Traditional Clinical Ideology — The Institutional Nature of Private Therapy — Four — The Female Career As a Psychiatric Patient — The Interviews — Women — Five — Sex Between Patient and Therapist — Six — Psychiatrically Institutionalized Women — Seven — Lesbians — The Interviews — Eight — Third World Women — The Interviews — Nine — Feminists — The Interviews — Ten — Female Psychology: Past, Present, and Future — Female Psychology in Our Culture: Women Alone — Female Psychology in Our Culture: Women in Groups — Amazon Societies: Visions and Possibilities — The Problem of Survival: Power and Violence — Some Psychological Prescriptions for the Future — Thirteen Questions — Notes — Bibliography — Index — Back Cover.
