The female body in mind : the interface between the female body and mental health
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Mervat Nasser; Karen Baistow; Janet Treasure
- ناشر : Hove, East Sussex ; New York : Routledge
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2007
- شابک / ISBN : 9780415385152
Description
At risk by reason of gender / Helen Malson and Mervat Nasser -- (Re)figuring identities: my body is what I am / Finn Skårderud and Mervat Nasser -- Deliberate self harm / Jane Bunclark --Psychological trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder / Walter Busuttil -- The trauma of self starvation: eating disorders and body image / Janet Treasure -- Breast cancer and body image / Stirling Moorey -- Women's bodies: natural history and biological programming / Dora Kohen -- "On being a mother": motherhood and mental health / Karen Baistow -- Sad motherhood: an overview of perinatal affective disorders / Kirsten Patrick and Veronical O'Keane -- Women who kill their babies / Sarah Davenport, Sandra Flynn and Jenny Shaw -- Society and women's distress / Tirril Harris -- When the personal gets in the way of the (inter)personal / Tennyson Lee -- Care and blame: the dialectic of caring / Joanna Murray -- Concepts of body and self in minority groups / Mervat Nasser, Dinesh Bhugra and Vanessa Chow -- Feminist therapies / Melanie Katzman, Mervat Nasser and Greta Noordenbos -- Self-help and healing narratives / Ulrike Schmidt and Varinia Sánchez-Ortiz -- Dialectical behavioural therapy: a treatment for borderline personality disorder / Bob Palmer and Debbie Whight -- Gender and psychopharmacology / Ruth I. Ohlsen and Lyn S. Pilowsky -- Do women need specific services / Janet Davies and Sue Waterhouse -- Gender- sensitive education and gender competence training: the perspective of the Royal College Of Psychiatrists and beyond / Rosalind Ramsay and Nisha Dogra.
Provides an exploration of the complexities involved in the relationship between women bodies and their mental health. Divided into six sections, this book also examines the relationship between women's bodies, society and culture, demonstrating how the body has become a platform for women's expression of their distress and anguish.
