Women and Mental Health

Table of contents

• Title Page *
• Contents v
• Acknowledgments x
• Introductory Comments xi
• Part I - What Happens to Women? Some Theoretical Views *
• 1 - Women: from Freud to the Present 3
• 2 - Early Origins of Envy and Devaluation of Women: Implications for Sex-Role Stereotypes 26
• 3 - Psychological Consequences of Sexual Inequality 41
• 4 - The Conflict between Nurturance and Autonomy in Mother-Daughter Relationships and within Feminism 51
• 5 - Psychology of Women: Perspectives on Theory and Research for the Eighties 70
• Part I - Supplementary Readings 79
• Part II - General Issues of Sexism in Mental Health *
• 6 - The Prevalence of Gender-Role Bias in Mental Health Services 83
• 7 - Sex-Role Stereotypes and Clinical Judgments of Mental Health 86
• 8 - Report of the Task Force on Sex Bias and Sex-Role Stereotyping in Psychotherapeutic Practice 98
• 9 - The Psychiatrist-Woman Patient Relationship 113
• 10 - A Review of Women's Psychotropic Drug Use 131
• 11 - Psychiatry's Problem with No Name: Therapist-Patient Sex 141
• Part II - Supplementary Readings 149
• Part III - Diagnosis and Psychopathology *
• 12 - The Influence of Gender on Diagnosis and Psychopathology 153
• 13 - Sex Differences and the Epidemiology of Depression 160
• 14 - The Hysterical Personality: a "Woman's Disease" 196
• 15 - Madness in Women 207
• 16 - Phobias after Marriage: Women's Declaration of Dependence 228
• 17 - A Starving Family: an Interactional View of Anorexia Nervosa 240
• 18 - Cinderella's Stepsisters: a Feminist Perspective on Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia 248
• 19 - Group Process for Women with Orgasmic Difficulties 263
• 20 - Issues in the Treatment of Female Addiction: a Review and Critique of the Literature 269
• 21 - The Female Alcoholic 296
• Part III - Supplementary Readings 306
• Part IV - Women's Particular Treatment Needs *
• 22 - Women's Treatment Needs 309
• Developmental Issues 311
• 23 - A Study of Attitudes toward Menarche in White Middle-Class American Adolescent Girls 311
• 24 - Teenage Pregnancy: a Research Review 325
• 25 - Psychological Reactions of Postpartum Women 340
• 26 - Attitudes toward Parenting in Dual-Career Families 347
• 27 - Female-Headed Families: Trends and Implications 357
• 28 - Lesbian Families: Cultural and Clinical Issues 373
• 29 - Midlife Concerns of Women: Implications of the Menopause 385
• Trauma 395
• 30 - Abortion Counseling 395
• 31 - Abortion Counseling with Adolescents 400
• 32 - Divorced Women 406
• 33 - Postmastectomy Counseling 411
• 34 - Group Work with Widows 419
• 35 - Psychosocial Aspects of Wife Battering 426
• 36 - Wife Battering and the Maintenance of Gender Roles: a Sociopsychological Perspective 440
• 37 - Rape: Sexual Disruption and Recovery 449
• 38 - Development of a Medical Center Rape Crisis Intervention Program 462
• 39 - The Rape Victim: Psychodynamic Considerations 470
• 40 - Identification and Treatment of Incest Victims 481
• 41 - Incest between Fathers and Daughters 497
• Part IV - Supplementary Readings 505
• Part V - Therapies *
• 42 - Psychotherapy with Women Clients: the Impact of Feminism 509
• 43 - Women Patients and Women Therapists: Some Issues That Come Up in Psychotherapy 514
• 44 - Adaptive and Pathogenic Aspects of Sex-Role Stereotypes: Implications for Parenting and Psychotherapy 534
• 45 - A Feminist Works with Nontraditional Clients 544
• 46 - A Feminist Approach to Family Therapy 553
• 47 - The Consciousness-Raising Group as a Model for Therapy with Women 572
• 48 - The Psychotherapeutic Impact of Women's Consciousness-Raising Groups 581
• Part V - Supplementary Readings 600
• Part VI - Where Do We Go from Here? *
• 49 - Where Do We Go from Here? 603
• 50 - A Decade of Feminist Influence on Psychotherapy 607
• 51 - New Directions in Counseling Women 620
• Part VI - Supplementary Readings 638
• Sources 639
• Name Index 643
• Subject Index 650