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Women and Psychosis

Multidisciplinary Perspectives
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Interrogating the relationship between women and psychosis from a variety of perspectives, this edited collection explores personal, literary, spiritual, psychological, biological and psychodynamic approaches. Chapter themes include explorations of medieval mystics and witches, postpartum psychosis, disordered eating, art and literature, feminism, and male/female differences in schizophrenia. Women with lived experience of psychosis, psychotherapists, and a shaman provide personal accounts to ground the book in lived experience. Curated with the intent to expand the way we think about women and psychosis, the contributions to this title recognize that 'voices and visions' do not occur in a vacuum but are experienced within, and are influenced by, particular socio-cultural contexts.
Chapter 1. Women and Madness in Context Chapter 2. Explicate or Relate: Recognizing and Differentiating Literary Madwomen Chapter 3. Stories Chapter 4. Snakes in the Crib: Psycho-Social Factors in Postpartum Psychosis Chapter 5. Disordered Eating and Disordered Thinking in Women: A Continuum in Objectification in Anorexia and Psychosis Chapter 6. Mystics, Witches or Hysterics? The Therapeutic Stakes When Spirituality Becomes a Symptom Chapter 7. From Sick to Gifted: Discovering Shamanic Illness Chapter 8. Psychosis in Women: A Perspective from Psychiatry Chapter 9. Schizophrenia in Women as Compared to Men: Theories to Help Explain the Difference
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