Main description:

Women and the Psychosocial Construction of Madness focuses on the question of madness as it is experienced by women within gendered sociopolitical contexts. Contributors to this edited collection engage with a diverse range of topics, including black and ethnic minority women's experiences of psychosis, psychosis in transwomen, sexual trauma and psychosis, the doctor-patient relationship, and women's experiences of mental health treatment and recovery. Chapters span the disciplines of psychoanalysis, sociology, women's studies, critical theory, and madness studies.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Race, Gender, and Psychosis

Chapter 2. Mourning and Melancholia in Transwomen: Inscription and the Risk for Melancholic Psychosis

Chapter 3. My Monster, My Self

Chapter 4. Sabina Spielrein and Frau M: Two Historical Cases of Female Psychoses

Chapter 5. Lucia

Chapter 6. The Locust of Words and the Locus of Saying: Femininity and Psychosis

Chapter 7. I Call this Institutionalized Rape

Chapter 8. The Scarlet Diagnosis: Trauma, Psychosis, and Pathologizing the Feminine

Chapter 9. Being of Sound Mind

Chapter 10. Faith: A Woman Interrupted