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Women & Psychosis: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Psychoanalytic Studies: Clinical, Social, and Cultural Contexts)

Women & Psychosis: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Psychoanalytic Studies: Clinical, Social, and Cultural Contexts)

by Marilyn Charles (Editor), Marie Brown (Editor), Marilyn Charles (Editor), Marilyn Charles (Editor), Marie Brown (Editor), Jessica Arenella (Contributor)

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    Hardcover 2019

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Synopsis

Interrogating the relationship between women and psychosis from a variety of perspectives, this edited collection explores personal, literary, spiritual, psychological, biological and psychodynamic approaches. Chapter themes include explorations of medieval mystics and witches, postpartum psychosis, disordered eating, art and literature, feminism, and male/female differences in schizophrenia. Women with lived experience of psychosis, psychotherapists, and a shaman provide personal accounts to ground the book in lived experience. Curated with the intent to expand the way we think about women and psychosis, the contributions to this title recognize that `voices and visions' do not occur in a vacuum but are experienced within, and are influenced by, particular socio-cultural contexts.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 226
 Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 15 Mar 2019
ISBN 10: 1498591914
ISBN 13: 9781498591911

Media Reviews
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. -- Annie Rogers, Hampshire College
Not since Phyllis Chesler's Women and Madness has there been a book that focuses on the important topic of psychosis in women. Kudos to Brown and Charles on this timely and welcomed collection of insightful essays, which I strongly recommend to all who are interested in learning more about the causes, manifestations, misunderstandings, and treatment of psychosis in women. -- Danielle Knafo, Long Island University - Post
Author Bio
Marie Brown is clinical psychology doctoral candidate at Long Island University and co-founder of the Hearing Voices Network NYC. Marilyn Charles is staff psychologist at the Austen Riggs Center and practicing psychoanalyst.