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more about #lisaappignanesi Shelwood: I am currently being treated for depression and PTSD. Initially I was in a coed CBT-based program. Three weeks ago I started in a women-only DBT pro... more » La_Panique: There's an interesting book to be written about how fads in mental treatment have harmed and helped women's bodies and minds over the past two centuri... more » Flackette Goes Retro: This is why I requested a female therapist. more » andBegorrah: Couldn't it just be titled The Madness, Woman and Civilization's Attic? more » y0shimi: Psychotherapy, whoever is getting it, has precious little scientific or clinical basis.... I'm surprised it's working for anyone at all. Of course it'... more » mbprice: My first thought was, I bet she's British! And I'm right. For various reasons, the British (as a stereotype) are far, far more skeptical of mental ill... more » msAnthrope: "It's clear that aspects of mental illness are culturally determined — there's a reason why the diagnosis and even the symptoms of hysteria were pre... more » Penny_Esq: Sounds like Scientology propaganda. more » OneTwoPunch: Freud (if I remember correctly) had an extremely low success rate with his mostly female patients. I question how much this ratio has improved. I see ... more » Penny: The crazies (I say this as a crazy, so don't take it the wrong way) have always been treated badly, male or female. I think what's interesting about ... more » Mmmmkay (gellin' and Jezebelin): Mad, bad and sad? Just Eat, Pray and Love. Ta da! all better. more » Omitofo: well, there are FAR too many people today hooked on SSRI drugs. any book that promotes awareness of that is helpful in my opinion. too bad she's too... more » traumamama: My favorite is when vibrators were invented to alleviate "nervous tension" and "hysteria" in female patients. The doctor's hand would get tired...thus... more » colormeroutine: There is also the fact that treatments for physical ailments at the time were not much more logical, reasonable, effective, or sensitively administere... more » -
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Mad, Bad & Sad: History Of Female Mental Illness Turns Into Indictment Of Psychotherapy
From force-feeding to tooth removal to stomach surgery, mental patients throughout history — many of them women — have endured some pretty horrific therapies. In Mad, Bad & Sad, Lisa Appignanesi questions whether modern treatments are much better.
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