The madness of women : myth and experience

Drawing on academic and clinical experience, including case studies and in-depth interviews, as well as on the now extensive critical literature in the field of mental health, Jane Ussher presents a critical multifactorial analysis of women's madness that both addresses the notion that madness is a myth, and yet acknowledges the reality and multiple causes of women's distress. Content: BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1 THE MADNESS OF WOMEN: Myth or experience?; 2 THE DAUGHTER OF HYSTERIA: Depression as a ẁoman's problem'?; 3 LABELLING WOMEN AS MAD: Regulating and oppressing women; 4 WOMAN AS OBJECT, NOT SUBJECT: Madness as response to objectification and sexual violence; 5 THE CONSTRUCTION AND LIVED EXPERIENCE OF WOMEN'S DISTRESS: Positioning premenstrual change as psychiatric illness; 6 WOMEN'S MADNESS: Resistance and survival; APPENDIX; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX; Abstract: Drawing on academic and clinical experience, including case studies and in-depth interviews, as well as on the now extensive critical literature in the field of mental health, Jane Ussher presents a critical multifactorial analysis of women's madness that both addresses the notion that madness is a myth, and yet acknowledges the reality and multiple causes of women's distress