Women's Encounters with the Mental Health Establishment : Escaping the Yellow Wallpaper
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0789015463
ISBN-13
9780789015464
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 13th, 2002
Print length
242 Pages
Weight
12 grams
Dimensions
15.30 x 21.20 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
Gender studies: womenMental health services
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This unique contemporary anthology of women's experiential writing shares women's realities, perceptions, and experiences (positive and negative) within the therapeutic environment.
Explore womens first-person experiences with the mental health establishment!
This unique contemporary anthology of womens experiential writing shares womens realities, perceptions, and experiences (positive and negative) within the therapeutic environment. These artistic expressions of personal experience will help women understand their own encounters in a new light. They are also instructive and enlightening for any practitioner working with women in a mental health setting.
Charlotte Perkins Gilmans famous short story (included here), The Yellow Wallpaper, which inspired this title, has come to represent the struggle of contemporary women to be understood by the therapeutic milieu from whom they seek psychological support and psychiatric treatment. An icon of feminist writing, the 1892 story symbolizes affirmation and validation for the female experience regarding mental health and therapy. This anthology, in the spirit of Gilmans work, gives voice to todays women so that their own encounters with the mental health establishment can be validating and affirming to others. It will also enlighten those in the helping professions as they extend their services to women in a time of growing need and shrinking resources.
In addition to The Yellow Wallpaper and a foreword and afterword by noted psychiatric professionals, Womens Encouters with the Mental Health Establishment: Escaping the Yellow Wallpaper also contains works by authors including:
This unique contemporary anthology of womens experiential writing shares womens realities, perceptions, and experiences (positive and negative) within the therapeutic environment. These artistic expressions of personal experience will help women understand their own encounters in a new light. They are also instructive and enlightening for any practitioner working with women in a mental health setting.
Charlotte Perkins Gilmans famous short story (included here), The Yellow Wallpaper, which inspired this title, has come to represent the struggle of contemporary women to be understood by the therapeutic milieu from whom they seek psychological support and psychiatric treatment. An icon of feminist writing, the 1892 story symbolizes affirmation and validation for the female experience regarding mental health and therapy. This anthology, in the spirit of Gilmans work, gives voice to todays women so that their own encounters with the mental health establishment can be validating and affirming to others. It will also enlighten those in the helping professions as they extend their services to women in a time of growing need and shrinking resources.
In addition to The Yellow Wallpaper and a foreword and afterword by noted psychiatric professionals, Womens Encouters with the Mental Health Establishment: Escaping the Yellow Wallpaper also contains works by authors including:
- Sylvia Plath
- Kate Millett
- Anne Sexton
- Lauren Slater
- Martha Manning
- Elayne Clift
- and many more!
Through prose and poetry, the contributors to this volume offer a creative, artistic, and highly readable contribution to the literatures of womens studies and psychology!
Visit the authors website at http://www.sover.net/~eclift.
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