"This guide explains what psychosis is, what the recovery process in like, especially for women, how psychosis affects family and friends and how a women with psychosis can manage her future."--
Women & Psychosis is an edited collection that examines the intersection of two marginalized identities, those of women and those deemed “psychotic”.
This book examines how being female affects onsets and nature of schizophrenia, and the implications of this for treatment.
Prior to this ebook edition, Kier-La's highly acclaimed book has already been issued twice in hardcover and twice in paperback, garnering extensive press coverage.
Interrogating the relationship between women and psychosis from a variety of perspectives, this edited collection explores personal, literary, spiritual, psychological, biological, and psychodynamic approaches.
Women have shared that contemplating having a child can feel painful and can shift their thoughts about personal identity ( Anderson , 2014 ) . Some women report that it has been difficult to process that life can be meaningful without ...
This is the first book to explore gender differences in psychopathology. Gender and Psychopathology will be informative and useful to students, researchers, and mental health clinicians of all disciplines.
... (with co-editor Michael O'Loughlin) Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering. Noël Hunter, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist in New York City and an advocate for the rights of people diagnosed with mental disorders.
This manual attempts to provide simple, adequate and evidence-based information to health care professionals in primary health care especially in low- and middle-income countries to be able to provide pharmacological treatment to persons ...
The interplay of hormones, health and behavior across the female life cycle, especially during the menopausal transition, poses a special challenge to health care professionals.Written by experts, this book brings together the knowledge ...
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