Description Interrogating the relationship between Women and psychosis from a variety of perspectives, this edited collection explores personal, literary, spiritual, psychological, biological, and psychodynamic approaches.
Marilyn Charles Marilyn Charles, Ph D, is practicing psychoanalyst and staff psychologist at the Austen Riggs Center..
About the Author Marie Brown is clinical psychology doctoral candidate at Long Island University and co-founder of the Hearing Voices Network NYC.
Curated with the intent to expand the way we think about Women and psychosis, the contributors to this collection recognize that "voices and visions" do not occur in a vacuum, but are experienced within, and are influenced by, particular socio-cultural contexts.
Women with experience of psychosis, psychotherapists, and a shaman provide first-person accounts to give the book a personal grounding.
The contributors reflect on medieval mystics and witches, postpartum psychosis, disordered eating, art and literature, feminism, and male/female differences in schizophrenia.
Description Interrogating the relationship between Women and psychosis from a variety of perspectives, this edited collection explores personal, literary, spiritual, psychological, biological, and psychodynamic approaches
