Women and the Psychosocial Construction of Madness

by Marie Brown (Editor), Marilyn Charles (Editor), Noel Hunter (Contribution by), Harshad Keval (Contribution by), Debra Lampshire (Contribution by)

Overview

Women and the Psychosocial Construction of Madness focuses on the question of madness as it is experienced by women within gendered sociopolitical contexts. Contributors to this edited collection engage with a diverse range of topics, including black and ethnic minority women’s experiences of psychosis, psychosis in transwomen, sexual trauma and psychosis, the doctor–patient relationship, and women’s experiences of mental health treatment and recovery. Chapters span the disciplines of psychoanalysis, sociology, women’s studies, critical theory, and madness studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781498591959
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	08/01/2019
Series:	Psychoanalytic Studies: Clinical, Social, and Cultural Contexts
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	246
File size:	1 MB

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.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Race, Gender, and Psychosis

Chapter 2. Mourning and Melancholia in Transwomen: Inscription and the Risk for Melancholic Psychosis

Chapter 3. My Monster, My Self

Chapter 4. Sabina Spielrein and Frau M: Two Historical Cases of Female Psychoses

Chapter 5. Lucia

Chapter 6. The Locust of Words and the Locus of Saying: Femininity and Psychosis

Chapter 7. I Call this Institutionalized Rape

Chapter 8. The Scarlet Diagnosis: Trauma, Psychosis, and Pathologizing the Feminine

Chapter 9. Being of Sound Mind

Chapter 10. Faith: A Woman Interrupted

Editorial Reviews

We must return to psychosis and its meaning systems again and again with every generation to understand the power it holds to oppress or illuminate the subjectivity of women who have supposedly gone mad. In Women and the Psychosocial Construction of Madness Marie Brown and Marilyn Charles have welcomed us to hear their voices once more and to listen with new ears.

Aurélie Athan

"Women and the Psychosocial Construction of Madness is thought-provoking collection of observations and insights about the challenges women of all socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds face in learning to cope with their psychosis-related symptoms."

Andrea Lefebvre

We must return to psychosis and its meaning systems again and again with every generation to understand the power it holds to oppress or illuminate the subjectivity of women who have supposedly gone mad. In Women and the Psychosocial Construction of Madness Marie Brown and Marilyn Charles have welcomed us to hear their voices once more and to listen with new ears.

Aurélie Athan