The materials drawn upon include medical text books, contemporary periodicals, literary and non-literary printed books of British India, Annual Reports of lunatic asylums, medical certificates, and Certificates of admission. We may have moved beyond 19th-century practice of observing and cataloguing 'female hysteria', but we have not lessened the incidence of mental illness in women. Through intimate and revealing portraits, shown alongside original historical documents, the exhibition traces key moments in the history of ‘female maladies’ and counterpoints them with women’s boldly inventive art today. Here too is the story of the professions that have grown up to offer treatment, of how over the years symptoms and diagnoses have developed together to create fashions in illness and how treatments have succeeded orsometimes failed, even when those providing care were women too.

In some ways she very nearly suggests that its the existence of the psychoanalytical professions that cause the problem in the first place.The word nomenclature is used in this book more times that I have ever read or heard cumulatively in the nearly 40 years of my life prior to reading this book. The answer can be found when seeing the glamourisation of drug-taking and 'mad' women in the media (especially celebrities), the way the same media treats female criminals (whether they're mad or bad) as 'foxy' and 'vamp', and the way terms like 'mad' and 'hysterical' are still easily flung at women who may just be vocal about their rights.

Regarding CBT, I think the impact of the therapist being a sympathetic person who wants to understand the nature of the problem and help may be underestimated.Despite wealth, whiteness, and a professional career, a diagnosis of mania and its resulting institutionalization reduced Ott to an easily dismissed and ultimately ridiculed madwoman. Pierwsza część to historie szaleństw, opisy przypadków kobiet, które czasem faktycznie traciły zmysły, a czasem po prostu odstawały od innych swoim rewolucyjnym sposobem bycia.

i don't think i got further than the first 100 pages, but even within that space the topic seemed to cycle around half-irrelevant points continuously until i forgot what the point actually was in the first place. Various forms of treatment/rehabilitation can be attempted but it may turn out that they need indefinite incarceration. She claims that anorexia results in twelve times more deaths in the 18-25 year old female population than any other single cause, which is complete baloney. He has appeared on numerous television and radio programmes and has published more than 150 scientific.

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