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This book describes how the societal understandings of madness are central to the problem of mental illness, and how this has far reaching effects on those who
Women and the Psychosocial Construction of Madness
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Women and the Psychosocial Construction of Madness focuses on the question of madness as it is experienced by women within gendered sociopolitical contexts. Con
The Madness of Women
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Authors: Jane Professor Ussher
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-03-28 - Publisher: Routledge

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Nominated for the 2012 Distinguished Publication Award of the Association for Women in Psychology! Why are women more likely to be positioned or diagnosed as ma
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A provocative argument that mental illnesses are not diseases, but the product of varying expectations shared by therapists and patients.
A Philosophy of Madness
Language: en
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Authors: Wouter Kusters
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The philosophy of psychosis and the psychosis of philosophy: a philosopher draws on his experience of madness. In this book, philosopher and linguist Wouter Kus