The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980This incisive study explores how cultural ideas about proper feminine behavior have shaped the definition and treatment of madness in women as it traces trends in the psychiatric care of women in England from 1830-1980. |
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... theory and his clinical practice , and especially by the ideas of the unconscious . As he explained in an essay for The Lancet : There is hardly a case which this theory does not help us the better to understand - not a day of clinical ...
... theory and his clinical practice , and especially by the ideas of the unconscious . As he explained in an essay for The Lancet : There is hardly a case which this theory does not help us the better to understand - not a day of clinical ...
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... theory of forgetting . In fact , Rivers concluded , the advent of the war presented psychiatry with an extraordinary demonstration of the validity of Freudian theory in general : " It is a wonderful turn of fate that just as Freud's theory ...
... theory of forgetting . In fact , Rivers concluded , the advent of the war presented psychiatry with an extraordinary demonstration of the validity of Freudian theory in general : " It is a wonderful turn of fate that just as Freud's theory ...
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... theory of deviance proposed by the American sociologist Thomas Scheff , who held that the symptoms of mental illness ... theory provided a way of looking at female insanity as the violation of sex - role expectations . Laingian theory ...
... theory of deviance proposed by the American sociologist Thomas Scheff , who held that the symptoms of mental illness ... theory provided a way of looking at female insanity as the violation of sex - role expectations . Laingian theory ...
Contents
John Conolly and Moral Management | 23 |
The Rise of the Victorian Madwoman | 51 |
Managing Womens Minds | 74 |
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