Women and the Psychosocial Construction of Madness

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

• Chapter 1. Race, Gender, and PsychosisChapter 2. Mourning and Melancholia in Transwomen: Inscription and the Risk for Melancholic PsychosisChapter 3. My Monster, My SelfChapter 4. Sabina Spielrein and Frau M: Two Historical Cases of Female PsychosesChapter 5. LuciaChapter 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 FeminineChapter 9. Being of Sound MindChapter 10. Faith: A Woman Interrupted

“We must return to psychosis and its meaning systems again and again with every generation to understand the power it holds to oppress or illuminate the subjectivity of women who have supposedly gone mad. In Women and the Psychosocial Construction of Madness Marie Brown and Marilyn Charles have welcomed us to hear their voices once more and to listen with new ears.”