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All in her head : how gender bias harms women's mental health / Misty Pratt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pratt, Misty, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex discrimination against women--Psychological aspects.
- Sex discrimination against women.
- Discrimination in medical care.
- Women--Mental health.
- Women.
- Sexism in mental health services.
- Women and psychoanalysis.
- Mentally ill women--Social conditions.
- Mentally ill women.
- Mental illness--Social aspects.
- Mental illness.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (328 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Vancouver ; Berkeley ; London : Greystone Books, [2024]
- Contents:
- Hysteria in action
- Gender bias in mental health care
- Biology, hormones, and mental health
- What's truly broken? How mental health care has failed women
- The cultural construction of mental illness
- The problems with patriarchy
- Are you mentally ill or mentally overloaded?
- The promises (and pitfalls) of therapy
- There's a pill for that
- Making peace with our moods
- From hysteria to healing.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-318) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781771649728 (electronic bk.)
- 1771649720 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 90100532169
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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