International Journal of Group Psychotherapy. ' 'Women and Madness,' by Phyllis Chesler (Book Review)'. 'Review: Women and Madness: The Critical Phallacy'. 'Twenty Years Since 'Women and Madness': Toward a Feminist Institute of Mental Health and Healing'. Chesler, Phyllis (Summer–Autumn 1990).The quote in French reads: 'Réquisitoire violent et tendre, juste et injuste à la fois, Les femmes et la folie, comme tout livre important, a l'immense mérite de 'troubler le sommeil du monde'.' ^ 'PSYCHOLOGIST, AUTHOR, AND BARD ALUMNA PHYLLIS CHESLER, WHO WILL SPEAK AT BARD COLLEGE ON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21'.'On Women-II: The Couch as Rack Women and Madness, by Phyllis Chesler'. 'The Hard-Earned Lessons of a Born Maverick'. ^ Greenspan, Miriam (26 December 2018).

'Phyllis Chesler – A Life on Behalf of Women'. Maddi wrote in The Saturday Review that it is 'an extremely important book, a signal that the women's liberation movement is coming of age.' References Roland Jaccard of Le Monde wrote that 'like any important book, Women and Madness has the immense merit of 'troubling the world's sleep.'' Reception īard College stated that the book 'has been reprinted many times in the United States and internationally.' Reviews Īdrienne Rich, in an article in The New York Times, concluded that Women and Madness 'is a pioneer contribution to the feminization of psychiatric thinking and practice.' Rich stated that the book at times makes an assumption that the reader is already familiar with the relevant fields. She also included statistics from hospitals. In the book Chesler includes an analysis of famous women who had negative endings to their lives and mythological stories from Western tradition involving female characters with negative endings, as well as quotations from psychotherapists and male authors and quotes from female authors, some of whom were feminists. As part of the writing process, Chesler conducted interviews. Phyllis Chesler is a feminist psychotherapist. Claudia Pitts of National Louis University wrote that the book was 'one of the earliest works of the second wave feminist movement to address issues such as the mistreatment of women, particularly in rape and incest female role models and spirituality in mental health services.' Miriam Greenspan of the Los Angeles Review of Books described it as 'a cultural watershed exposing how male-dominated psychiatry damages women.' Background The work explores the effects on women in same-sex relationships and psychiatry/psychology in the third world.

In the book, Chesler argues that women are negatively impacted by psychiatry and psychology due to the dominance of men in those fields. Women and Madness is a 1972 book by Phyllis Chesler.

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