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    Women and Madness » Read Now

    by Phyllis Chesler. 404 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
    ...WOMEN AND MADNESS WOMEN AND MADNESS Phyllis Chesler...Data : Chesler, Phyllis. Women and madness / by Phyllis Chesler. p. cm...MADNESS ONE WHY MADNESS? 43 Women in Asylums:...
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    Love's Madness: Medicine, the Novel, and Female Insanity, 1800-1865 » Read Now

    by Helen Small. 266 pgs.

    Love's Madness is an important new contribution to the interdisciplinary study of insanity. Focusing on the figure of the love-mad woman, it presents a significant reassessment of the ways in which British medical writers and novelists of the nineteenth century thought about madness, femininity, and...
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    Through the Looking Glass: Women and Borderline Personality Disorder » Read Now

    by Dana Becker. 200 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
    "In an innovative contribution to a crucial debate, Dana Becker turns a compassionate eye toward those women oft maligned in traditional theory & clinical practice. Her cogent analysis ... recasts responses to the limits placed upon girls & women in a culture of gender inequality." Rachel T...
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    Questions of Power: The Politics of Women's Madness Narratives, in Biography » Read Now

    by Marta Caminero-Santangelo. 5 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Cheslers pioneering work Women and Madness (1972), Elaine Showalters...Jane Usshers Womens Madness: Misogyny or Mental...lesser-known narratives by women diagnosed with...
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    Studies on Hysteria » Read Now

    by Josef Breuer, Sigmund Freud, James Strachey. 335 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
    ...This cornerstone of modern psychoanalytic knowledge sets forth the cathartic method, in which patients' symptoms are cured as the recollect and express buried emotions...

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