Questions of Power
Subtitle: The Politics of Women's Madness Narratives
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: May 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780874137439
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers; United States; Mental Illness; Hospital Administration; Psychology; Medical; Psychiatric hospitals; Mentally ill women; History; General; Mental Health; Biography; Psychiatric hospital patients
Description: "Questions of Power: The Politics of Women's Madness Narratives explores the ways in which women have used autobiographical writing in response to psychiatric symptoms and treatment. By addressing health and healing from the patient's perspective, the study raises questions about psychiatric practice and mental health policy. The ultimate thesis is that autobiographies by women psychiatric patients can expose many of the problems in psychiatric treatment and indicate directions for change."--BOOK JACKET.