Title: Women and madness /
Authors: Chesler, Phyllis.
Publisher: Doubleday,
Year: 1972
Subjects: Mental Disorders; Women psychology; Women Health and hygiene Sociological aspects.; Mental illness.; Women Psychology.; Sex role; Women Mental health Social aspects.; Hospitals, Psychiatric; Psychiatry; Psychology, Social; Social Adjustment; Women
Abstract: An examination of the female condition and what is called madness.
Contents: Introduction -- Madness -- Why madness? -- Asylums -- The clinicians -- The female career as a psychiatric patient -- Women -- Sex between patient and therapist -- Psychiatrically institutionalized women -- Lesbians -- Third world women -- Feminists -- Female psychology: past, present, future.