Psychoanalytic studies: Clinical, social, and cultural contexts
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Women & psychosis in arts & culture -- Women and madness in context / Marilyn Charles -- Explicate or relate : recognizing and differentiating literary madwomen / Helen DeVinney -- Stories / Berta Britz -- Women, psychosis & the body -- Snakes in the crib : psycho-social factors in postpartum psychosis / Marie Brown -- Disordered eating and disordered thinking in women: a continuum in objectification in anorexia and psychosis / Jessica Arenella -- Women, psychosis & spirituality -- Mystics, witches or hysterics? : the therapeutic stakes when spirituality becomes a symptom / Liane F. Carlson -- From sick to gifted : discovering shamanic illness / Gogo Ekhaya Esima -- Psychiatric perspectives on women & psychosis -- Psychosis in women: a perspective from psychiatry / Simone Ciufolini & Nicola Byrne -- Schizophrenia in women as compared to men : theories to help explain the difference / Mary V. Seeman.