Kate Mahoney is an independent researcher and Visiting Fellow at the University of Essex

'Kate Mahoney offers an engaging account of feminist mental health activism in twentieth-century England... Feminist Mental Health Activism contributes to disability history by contextualizing the experiences of psychiatric disability in a framework of feminism, activism, and the shifting scene of mental health care in England.' - H-Disability

• Introduction1 Challenging Freud: opposition to psychology and psychiatry in the early Women’s Liberation Movement2 Psychotherapy and self-help: the London Women’s Liberation Workshop Psychology Group3 A foundation for feminist therapy: the Women’s Therapy Centre4 Women and MIND: the influence of feminist politics on a national mental health charityConclusionBiographical notes on intervieweesBibliography

Kate Mahoney is an independent researcher and Visiting Fellow at the University of Essex

'Kate Mahoney offers an engaging account of feminist mental health activism in twentieth-century England... Feminist Mental Health Activism contributes to disability history by contextualizing the experiences of psychiatric disability in a framework of feminism, activism, and the shifting scene of mental health care in England.' - H-Disability

• Introduction1 Challenging Freud: opposition to psychology and psychiatry in the early Women’s Liberation Movement2 Psychotherapy and self-help: the London Women’s Liberation Workshop Psychology Group3 A foundation for feminist therapy: the Women’s Therapy Centre4 Women and MIND: the influence of feminist politics on a national mental health charityConclusionBiographical notes on intervieweesBibliography