The female body in mind : the interface between the female body and mental health / edited by Mervat Nasser, Karen Baistow, and Janet Treasure.

Other author Nasser, Mervat.
Other author Baistow, Karen.
Other author Treasure, Janet.
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
Descriptionxvi, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects
Mental Disorders--psychology.
Women--Mental health.
Body image.
Human body--Miscellanea.

Contents At risk by reason of gender / Helen Malson and Mervat Nasser -- (Re)figuring identities: my body is what I am / Finn Skårderud and Mervat Nasser -- Deliberate self harm / Jane Bunclark --Psychological trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder / Walter Busuttil -- The trauma of self starvation: eating disorders and body image / Janet Treasure -- Breast cancer and body image / Stirling Moorey -- Women's bodies: natural history and biological programming / Dora Kohen -- "On being a mother": motherhood and mental health / Karen Baistow -- Sad motherhood: an overview of perinatal affective disorders / Kirsten Patrick and Veronical O'Keane -- Women who kill their babies / Sarah Davenport, Sandra Flynn and Jenny Shaw -- Society and women's distress / Tirril Harris -- When the personal gets in the way of the (inter)personal / Tennyson Lee -- Care and blame: the dialectic of caring / Joanna Murray -- Concepts of body and self in minority groups / Mervat Nasser, Dinesh Bhugra and Vanessa Chow -- Feminist therapies / Melanie Katzman, Mervat Nasser and Greta Noordenbos -- Self-help and healing narratives / Ulrike Schmidt and Varinia Sánchez-Ortiz -- Dialectical behavioural therapy: a treatment for borderline personality disorder / Bob Palmer and Debbie Whight -- Gender and psychopharmacology / Ruth I. Ohlsen and Lyn S. Pilowsky -- Do women need specific services / Janet Davies and Sue Waterhouse -- Gender- sensitive education and gender competence training: the perspective of the Royal College Of Psychiatrists and beyond / Rosalind Ramsay and Nisha Dogra.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2006029031
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