Social, psychological, and lived perspectives
Hansen & Charles, An Introduction to Women & Psychosis. Section 1: Overview. Charles, Chapter 1: Women and madness in context. Seeman, Chapter 2: Schizophrenia in women compared to men: Symptoms, lifecourse, treatment, and theories to help explain the difference. Ready, Chapter 3: In the dark zone. Section 2: Spiritual perspectives. Carlson, Chapter 4: Mystics, witches or hysterics? The therapeutic stakes when spirituality becomes a symptom. Esima, Chapter 5: Sick or gifted? - Discovering shamanic illness. Marino, Chapter 6: My monster, my self. Section 3: Clinical perspectives. Arenella, Chapter 7: A feminist psychoanalytic model for understanding dieting disordered eating, and trauma in psychosis.Hansen, Chapter 8: Snakes in the crib: Towards a psychological understanding of postpartum psychosis. Melker, Chapter 9: Sabina Spielrein and Frau M: Two cases of women's psychosis through the lens of Jungian complex theory. Britz, Chapter 10: Transforming taboo. Poser, Chapter 11: Lucia. O'Loughlin, Queler & Marsh, Chapter 12: Faith: A woman interrupted. Section 4: Social perspectives. Hunter, Chapter 13: Psychiatric tyranny and social control: The power of diagnosis. Hornstein, Chapter 14: Did they die of "mental illness"? Confronting the lives and works of Iris Chang and Shulamith Firestone. Jones & Luhrmann, Chapter 15: At the margins of society, at the margins of the family: Women's paths into and out of homelessness in India and the United States. Moreira, Chapter 16: Mourning and psychosis in transsexual women. Lampshire, Chapter 17: Being of sound mind. Section 5: Artistic & literary perspectives. Steinkoler, Chapter 18: Being and becoming text. DeVinney, Chapter 19: Writing psychosis, writing women. Knafo, Chapter 20: Persephone's atelier: Women artists and psychosis.