Women & Psychosis

Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

Av Marie Brown, Marilyn Charles, Marilyn Charles, Marilyn Charles

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-03-04
Mått154 x 219 x 17 mm
Vikt340 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePsychoanalytic Studies: Clinical, Social, and Cultural Contexts
Antal sidor232
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498591935

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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

Marie Brown and Marilyn Charles have assembled a book that bridges different perspectives and disciplines to contextualize and complicate women’s experiences of psychosis through culture, the body, spirituality, and psychiatry. Reading Women and Psychosis itself becomes a polyphonic experience that changes how we understand what psychosis is, how it has been construed, and for women, with what consequences.