Women and the Psychosocial Construction of Madness - Paperback

by Marie Brown (Editor), Marilyn Charles (Editor), Noel Hunter (Contribution by)

Women and the Psychosocial Construction of Madness focuses on the gendered experience of madness within patriarchal power structures. Spanning disciplines like mad studies, psychoanalysis, sociology, and critical theory, this collection explores the interaction between the social and the psyche as it relates to marginalized women's mental health.

Author Biography

Marie Brown is clinical psychology doctoral candidate at Long Island University Brooklyn and co-founder of the Hearing Voices Network NYC. Marilyn Charles is staff psychologist at the Austen Riggs Center, Professor at the University of Monterrey (UDEM), and practicing psychoanalyst.