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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. 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.
List 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. I Call this Institutionalized Rape
Chapter 7. The Locust of Words and the Locus of Saying: Femininity and Psychosis
Chapter 8. The Scarlet Diagnosis: Trauma, Psychosis, and Pathologizing the Feminine
Chapter 9. Being of Sound Mind
Chapter 10. Faith: A Woman Interrupted
About the author
Edited by Marie Brown and Marilyn Charles - Contributions by Noel Hunter; Harshad Keval; Debra Lampshire; Casadi Marino; Ilona Melker; Alvaro D. Moreira; Michael O'Loughlin; Erin Soros and Manya Steinkoler
Summary
Women and the Psychosocial Construction of Madness focuses on the gendered experience of madness within patriarchal power structures. Spanning disciplines like mad studies, psychoanalysis, sociology, and critical theory, this collection explores the interaction between the social and the psyche as it relates to marginalized women’s mental health.
