Women and Psychosis: Social, Psychological, and Lived Perspectives

by Marie Brown

This collection explores the relationship between womanhood and psychosis from a variety of perspectives including anthropological, spiritual, psychological, biological and social. Chapter themes include explorations of medieval mystics and witches, postpartum psychosis, cross-cultural homeless women, disordered eating, Jungian complex theory, art and literature, feminism, transsexual women, psychoanalysis, and gender differences in respect to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138219878
• ISBN13: 9781138219878
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages