Questions of Power

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"Questions of Power: The Politics of Women's Madness Narratives explores the ways in which women have used autobiographical writing in response to psychiatric symptoms and treatment. By addressing health and healing from the patient's perspective, the study raises questions about psychiatric practice and mental health policy. The ultimate thesis is that autobiographies by women psychiatric patients can expose many of the problems in psychiatric treatment and indicate directions for change."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Psychiatrische patiënten,  Psychology,  Psychiatric hospital patients,  Psychiatric hospitals,  Mentally Ill Persons,  Vrouwen,  Patients,  Literature,  Psychiatrische inrichtingen,  Autobiografieën,  History,  Mentally ill women,  Psychopathologie,  Literature and mental illness,  Narration (Rhetoric),  Women and literature,  Mental illness in literature,  Biography,  Women,  Mentally ill, biography