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Perverse psychology :

1848721722

1848721730

9781848721722

9781848721739

9781315758190

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Perverse psychology :

[Book]

the pathologization of sexual violence and transgenderism /

Jemma Tosh.

1st Edition.

xiv, 146 pages ;

22 cm.

Concepts for critical psychology

Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-144) and index.

"Psychology defines people who take pleasure in the suffering of others as having a form of mental illness, while media representations frame such behaviour as 'evil'. This is hotly contested territory, not least where sexual violence is concerned - violence which feminist voices argue is related to power rather than sex. Perverse Psychology examines psychiatric constructions of sexual violence and transgenderism from the 19th century until the latest DSM-5 diagnoses. It uses discourse analysis to interrogate the discursive boundaries between 'normal' and 'abnormal' rape, as well as the pathologization of gender and sexual diversity. The book illuminates for the first time the parallels between psychiatry's construction of gender diversity and sexual violence, and leads us to question whether it is violence that the profession finds so intriguing, or the gender nonconformity it represents. Perverse Psychology is ideal reading for postgraduate students and researchers in the fields of critical psychology, discourse analysis, feminism, transgenderism, LGBT psychology, and the history of psychiatry"--

Sex crimes-- Psychological aspects.

Social psychology.

PSYCHOLOGY / Clinical Psychology.

PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality.

PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology.

Sex crimes-- Psychological aspects.

Social psychology.

Tosh, Jemma

20150120043400.0

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