For centuries, women have occupied a unique place in the annals of insanity. Some would
say that women are more mad than men, with psychiatric treatment a beneficent force that …

This chapter seeks to outline the ways in which psy-hegemony operates in Western
medicine by analyzing the emergence of pathological individualism since the nineteenth …

This article challenges Western clinical protocols to address trauma resulting from an
automobile accident as the preferred method of treatment. Framed by feminist theory that …

This discussion of three cases of filicide reported and reviewed extensively by the Australian
news media between 2010 and 2014 is concerned with the politics of representation and its …

In Colonizing Madness Jacqueline Leckie tells a forgotten story of silence, suffering, and
transgressions in the colonial Pacific. It offers new insights into a history of Fiji by entering …

Women are at least twice as likely to experience depression as men, and up to 25% of
women can expect to be depressed in their lifetimes. Depression is likely to recur in up to …

There has been little evolutionarily oriented empirical research on the intense, repetitive
thoughts—ruminations—that often occur during grief. We used evolutionary theory to …

This article discusses the widespread use of victim tropes in contemporary Anglo-American
culture by using cultural theory to analyse key social media memes circulating on Facebook …

Throughout history, the concept of madness has been linked to women and defined by men.
Traditionally, female madness has been viewed as the result of the woman's fragile …