<P><EM>Nominated for the 2012</EM><EM> Distinguished Publication Award of the Association for Women in Psychology!</EM></P><br/><br/><P>Why are women more likely to be positioned or diagnosed as mad than men?</P><br/><br/><P>If madness is a social construction, a gendered label, as many feminist critics would argue, how can we understand and explain women's prolonged misery and distress? In turn, can we prevent or treat women's distress, in a non-pathologising women centred way? <EM>The Madness of Women</EM> addresses these questions through a rigorous exploration of the myths and realities of women's madness.</P><br/><br/><P>Drawing on academic and clinical experience, including case studies and in-depth interviews, as well as on the now extensive critical literature in the field of mental health, Jane Ussher presents a critical multifactorial analysis of women's madness that both addresses the notion that madness is a myth, and yet acknowledges the reality and multiple causes of women's distress. Topics include:</P><br/><br/><UL><br/><br/><LI>The genealogy of women's madness - incarceration of difficult or deviant women</LI><br/><br/><LI>Regulation through treatment</LI><br/><br/><LI>Deconstrucing depression, PMS and borderline personality disorder</LI><br/><br/><LI>Madness as a reasonable response to objectification and sexual violence</LI><br/><br/><LI>Women's narratives of resistance</LI></UL><br/><br/><P>This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of psychology, gender studies, sociology, women's studies, cultural studies, counselling and nursing.</P>
