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Women and Mental Health
Provides a comprehensive overview of the most prominent mental health problems in women today that will prove a valuable tool for all those working in the fields of mental health.
The Kerr/Haslam Inquiry [report]
This report sets out the findings and recommendations of the private inquiry into how the NHS dealt with complaints relating to the practice and conduct of two consultant psychiatrists, William Kerr and Michael Haslam, who worked in the same psychiatric hospital in North Yorkshire during the 1970s and 1980s, and who were both were later convicted of the indecent assault of female psychiatric patients. The two-volume report examines a range of issues including: i) background events including the range of concerns considered in the provision of mental health services, the conduct of the inquiry and the report in context; ii) detailed examination of the complaints against William Kerr and Micha...
Oxford Textbook of Women and Mental Health
Although women specific mental health problems have been described for hundreds of years, it is in the last 3 to 4 decades, that research in many different aspects of women's mental health has bloomed. This title presents a comprehensive review of gender and mental health.
Women and Psychiatric Treatment
Women and Psychiatric Treatment provides a practical guide to the challenge of preserving fairness in access and quality of provision of health care and argues that equity is only achievable through greater recognition of gender differences. Taking into account the main variables which influence treatment, such as setting, age and culture, clear suggestions are given for the reform of training, research and provision of services according to gender differences. Divided into seven sections, the book discusses the following subjects: the background treatment settings treatment of particular groups specific disorders managing the sequelae of trauma therapies the future: implications for training, research and service provision. This comprehensive and practical text offers a thorough investigation of the issues surrounding the treatment of women with mental health problems. It will be welcomed by psychiatrists, clinical psychologists and other mental health workers.
Depression and Narrative
Depression and Narrative examines stories of depression in the context of recent scholarship on illness and narrative, which up to this point has largely focused on physical illness and disability. Contributors from a number of disciplinary perspectives address these narrative accounts of depression, by both sufferers and those who treat them, as they appear in memoirs, diaries, novels, poems, oral interviews, fact sheets, blogs, films, and television shows. Together, they explore the stories we tell about depression: its contested causes; its gendering; the transformations in identity that it entails; and the problems it presents for communication, associated as it is with stigma and shame....
Bottled Up
Discusses the issue of breast feeding and whether it is fair to judge parenting on breast vs. bottle as opposed to making the right choice for a family.
Oxford Textbook of the Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability
Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability is the definitive resource on the subject. Written and edited by world-renowned experts with decades of experience in the field, each chapter provides reliable evidence and practical advice for clinical situations, with multiple choice questions for self-evaluation.
Women and Mental Health
We know that gender traits and mental disorders are based on social, cultural, personal and physiological background. In order to formulate the best management plan for the patient, the mental health practitioner needs to incorporate all available information. Women and Mental Health provides a comprehensive overview of the most prominent mental health problems in women today. Examining the physiological, social and psychological factors of mental illness, and providing an up-to-date perspective on the etiology of different disorders, the book will help mental health professionals formulate the best management plan for the individual. Covering issues including perinatal psychiatric disorders, depression, eating disorders, schizophrenia, and alcohol and drug abuse - from a female perspective - Women and Mental Health will prove a valuable tool for all those working in the fields of mental health.
The Wasting Heroine in German Fiction by Women 1770-1914
In this broad-ranging study of German fiction by women between 1770-1914, the author aims to add a new dimension to existing debates on the association of women and illness in literature. She constructs a history of women's self-starvation, eating behaviour and wasting diseases.
The Whispering Roots
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