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Women and madness
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- Summary
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An examination of the female condition and what is called madness.
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- Creator
- by Phyllis Chesler
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- Garden City, New York : Doubleday & Company, 1972
- Physical Details
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- xxiii, 359 pages illustrations 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 0385026714, 9780385026710
- OCLC
- ocm00502052
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Also issued online.
- 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
Subjects
- Women -- Mental health -- Social aspects.
- Women -- Psychology.
- Sex role.
- Hospitals, Psychiatric.
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- Psychology, Social.
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- Psychiatry.
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- Social Adjustment.
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- Women.
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- Mental Disorders.
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