Women and the Psychosocial Construction of Madness (Psychoanalytic Studies: Clinical)

Women and the Psychosocial Construction of Madness (Psychoanalytic Studies: Clinical)

Marie Brown (Editor), Marilyn Charles (Editor), Noel Hunter (Contribution by)
$155.40
Publication Date: August 1st, 2019
Publisher:
Lexington Books
ISBN:
9781498591942
Pages:
236
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Description

Women and the Psychosocial Construction of Madness focuses on the gendered experience of madness within patriarchal power structures. Spanning disciplines like mad studies, psychoanalysis, sociology, and critical theory, this collection explores the interaction between the social and the psyche as it relates to marginalized women's mental health.

About the Author

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.

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