Couching Resistance: Women, Film, and Psychoanalytic Psychiatry

by Janet Walker

In Couching Resistance, Janet Walker examines professional and popular literature published between World War II and the mid-1960's to develop a picture of psychiatry's ambivalent response to women patients. This ambivalence, Walker argues, is also evident in the profusion of Hollywood films form the same period on the subject of psychiatry and women. Even though in many cases men and women made up an equal number of patients,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816622337
• ISBN13: 9780816622337
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"