Marie Brown is clinical psychology doctoral candidate at Long Island University and co-founder of the Hearing Voices Network NYC.Marilyn Charles Marilyn Charles, PhD, is practicing psychoanalyst and staff psychologist at the Austen Riggs Center.

Marie Brown and Marilyn Charles have assembled a book that bridges different perspectives and disciplines to contextualize and complicate women’s experiences of psychosis through culture, the body, spirituality, and psychiatry. Reading Women and Psychosis itself becomes a polyphonic experience that changes how we understand what psychosis is, how it has been construed, and for women, with what consequences.

• Chapter 1. Women and Madness in Context Chapter 2. Explicate or Relate: Recognizing and Differentiating Literary MadwomenChapter 3. StoriesChapter 4. Snakes in the Crib: Psycho-Social Factors in Postpartum PsychosisChapter 5. Disordered Eating and Disordered Thinking in Women: A Continuum in Objectification in Anorexia and Psychosis Chapter 6. Mystics, Witches or Hysterics? The Therapeutic Stakes When Spirituality Becomes a SymptomChapter 7. From Sick to Gifted: Discovering Shamanic IllnessChapter 8. Psychosis in Women: A Perspective from PsychiatryChapter 9. Schizophrenia in Women as Compared to Men: Theories to Help Explain the Difference

Marie Brown is clinical psychology doctoral candidate at Long Island University and co-founder of the Hearing Voices Network NYC.Marilyn Charles Marilyn Charles, PhD, is practicing psychoanalyst and staff psychologist at the Austen Riggs Center.

Marie Brown and Marilyn Charles have assembled a book that bridges different perspectives and disciplines to contextualize and complicate women’s experiences of psychosis through culture, the body, spirituality, and psychiatry. Reading Women and Psychosis itself becomes a polyphonic experience that changes how we understand what psychosis is, how it has been construed, and for women, with what consequences.

• Chapter 1. Women and Madness in Context Chapter 2. Explicate or Relate: Recognizing and Differentiating Literary MadwomenChapter 3. StoriesChapter 4. Snakes in the Crib: Psycho-Social Factors in Postpartum PsychosisChapter 5. Disordered Eating and Disordered Thinking in Women: A Continuum in Objectification in Anorexia and Psychosis Chapter 6. Mystics, Witches or Hysterics? The Therapeutic Stakes When Spirituality Becomes a SymptomChapter 7. From Sick to Gifted: Discovering Shamanic IllnessChapter 8. Psychosis in Women: A Perspective from PsychiatryChapter 9. Schizophrenia in Women as Compared to Men: Theories to Help Explain the Difference

Marie Brown is clinical psychology doctoral candidate at Long Island University and co-founder of the Hearing Voices Network NYC.Marilyn Charles Marilyn Charles, PhD, is practicing psychoanalyst and staff psychologist at the Austen Riggs Center.

Marie Brown and Marilyn Charles have assembled a book that bridges different perspectives and disciplines to contextualize and complicate women’s experiences of psychosis through culture, the body, spirituality, and psychiatry. Reading Women and Psychosis itself becomes a polyphonic experience that changes how we understand what psychosis is, how it has been construed, and for women, with what consequences.

• Chapter 1. Women and Madness in Context Chapter 2. Explicate or Relate: Recognizing and Differentiating Literary MadwomenChapter 3. StoriesChapter 4. Snakes in the Crib: Psycho-Social Factors in Postpartum PsychosisChapter 5. Disordered Eating and Disordered Thinking in Women: A Continuum in Objectification in Anorexia and Psychosis Chapter 6. Mystics, Witches or Hysterics? The Therapeutic Stakes When Spirituality Becomes a SymptomChapter 7. From Sick to Gifted: Discovering Shamanic IllnessChapter 8. Psychosis in Women: A Perspective from PsychiatryChapter 9. Schizophrenia in Women as Compared to Men: Theories to Help Explain the Difference