Women & psychosis : multidisciplinary perspectives / edited by Marie Brown and Marilyn Charles.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown, Marie, 1981- editor.

Charles, Marilyn, editor.

John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

Series:

Psychoanalytic studies (Series)

Psychoanalytic studies: Clinical, social, and cultural contexts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Psychology.

Women.

Psychoses.

Physical Description:

xi, 213 pages ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Women and psychosis

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2019]

Contents:

Women & psychosis in arts & culture

Women and madness in context / Marilyn Charles

Explicate or relate : recognizing and differentiating literary madwomen / Helen DeVinney

Stories / Berta Britz

Women, psychosis & the body

Snakes in the crib : psycho-social factors in postpartum psychosis / Marie Brown

Disordered eating and disordered thinking in women: a continuum in objectification in anorexia and psychosis / Jessica Arenella

Women, psychosis & spirituality

Mystics, witches or hysterics? : the therapeutic stakes when spirituality becomes a symptom / Liane F. Carlson

From sick to gifted : discovering shamanic illness / Gogo Ekhaya Esima

Psychiatric perspectives on women & psychosis

Psychosis in women: a perspective from psychiatry / Simone Ciufolini & Nicola Byrne

Schizophrenia in women as compared to men : theories to help explain the difference / Mary V. Seeman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Women & psychosis

ISBN:

9781498591911

1498591914

OCLC:

1078171753