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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Chesler, Phyllis. Women and madness. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday [1972] (OCoLC)599427764 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Phyllis Chesler |
| ISBN: | 0385026714 9780385026710 |
| OCLC Number: | 502052 |
| Description: | xxiii, 359 p. illus. 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction -- Madness -- Why madness? -- Asylums -- The clinicians -- The female career as a psychiatric patient -- Women -- Sex between patient and therapist -- Psychiatrically institutionalized women -- Lesbians -- Third world women -- Feminists -- Female psychology: past, present, future. |
Abstract:
An examination of the female condition and what is called madness.
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