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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.

Collections: Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

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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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 narrative convention. The book centers around studies of novels by Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott, Charlotte Bronte, Wilkie Collins, and Charles Dickens, as well as of previously neglected writings by Charles Maturin, Lady Caroline Lamb, and Edward Bulwer-Lytton, among others.
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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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"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. Hare-Mustin Author of Making a Difference "With precision & deliberation, leaving no stone unturned, Dana Becker lays out the history of BPD & the sordid history of the psychiatric profession's diagnosing of women." Sharon Lamb Author of The Trouble with Blame
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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...