Women and madness / Phyllis Chesler.
- Chesler, Phyllis.
- Date:
- 2005
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Physical description
x, 406 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contributors
Edition
1st ed., rev. and updated.
Notes
"Revised and updated for the first time in thirty years"--Cover.
Contents
Why madness? -- Asylums -- The clinicians -- The female career as a psychiatric patient -- Sex between patient and therapist -- Psychiatrically institutionalized women -- Lesbians -- Third world women -- Feminists -- Female psychology : past, present, and future.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-389) and index.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineCBW.PXOpen shelves
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ISBN
- 1403968977