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Women, Madness and Medicine Denise Russell

Women, Madness and Medicine By Denise Russell

Women, Madness and Medicine by Denise Russell


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aeo An exciting and challenging examination of how womena s minds are defined and treated by the medical establishment. aeo Whereas other books examine the history of mental illness in women, this book looks at the contemporary approaches of modern psychiatry.

Women, Madness and Medicine Summary

Women, Madness and Medicine by Denise Russell

This book looks at the roots of modern psychiatry, its theoretical approach to women, and what shifting trends in diagnosis tell us about its social underpinning. Arguing at both an epistemological and empirical level, Russell challenges the biological base of conditions such as schizophrenia, depression, premenstrual syndrome, anorexia, bulimia and female criminality.

Women, Madness and Medicine Reviews

'Her book beautifully integrates Phyllis Chester's seminal work, Women and Madness. Must reading for upper-division undergraduates, graduates, and professional practitioners in all fields relating to women's health.' Choice

'... In this comprehensive critique she systematically analyses and dismisses the bases of psychiatric intervention into the lives of women... What Russell has accomplished in this excellent book is to draw together a number of different arguments, each of which has been covered by other writers, under this one comprehensive assault on the epistemological base of biological psychiatry. Denise Russell is to be congratulated in presenting this timely reminder that the debate goes on.' History of the Human Sciences

'Women, Madness and Medicine continues (or more accurately, restates) a tradition in the feminist critique of the mental health professions whose roots are in the work of Phyllis Chesler, the original analyst of the parallels between patriarchy and psychotherapy ... useful and interesting commentary and reviews.'
Contemporary Psychology

About Denise Russell

Denise Russell is Senior Lecturer in the Department of General Philosophy at the University of Sydney.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements.

Introduction.

1. History of the relationship between Women and Psychiatry.

includes: Women encounter psychiatry; Psychiatrists and asylums; Nineteenth-century psychiatric theories of female madness.

2. Modern Psychiatric Perspectives on Women.

includes: Psychiatric diagnosis and the interests of women; Problems with the conceptual foundations of the DSM-III-R; Problems wit subjectivity; Narrowness of focus; Personality disorders; Personality disorders and biological psychiatry; Personality disorders and child abuse; The medical profession responds to child abuse statistics.

3. Shifting Trends in Diagnosis.

includes: Depression; Biological studies of depression and diagnosis problems; Research into the biological basis of depression; Is depression an illness?; The sociological challenge to biology; Pre-menstrual syndrome (PMS) - defined?; PMS: the causal research generates puzzles; Questions about the PMS diagnosis and its role in the discipline of women.

4. Epistemological Problems with the Dominant Medical Psychiatric Perspective.

includes: Schizophrenia; Genetic studies of schizophrenia; Schizophrenia and body chemistry; Brain imaging studies of schizophrenia; Eating disorders; The biological research into eating disorders; Non-biological accounts of eating disorders.

5. Women, Psychiatry and Criminality.

includes: Female crimes and appropriate female behaviour; Biological psychiatry and female crime; Pre-menstrual syndrome and female crime; Psychiatric legal defences and the interests of women; Battered woman syndrome and the law of self-defence.

6. Contrasting Feminist Philosophies of Women and Madness: Oppression and Repression.

Examining the work of Phyllis Chesler and Luce Irigaray.

7. Women, Creativity, Reason and Madness.

Examining the work of Virginia Woolf and Janet Frame.

8. Beyond Psychiatry.

Notes.

Index.

Additional information

GOR001410847
9780745612614
074561261X
Women, Madness and Medicine by Denise Russell
Used - Very Good
Paperback
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
19941215
208
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