Most critiques and commentaries concerning the American Psychiatric Association's
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) focus on the expanding scope …

The third edition of the iconic collection Making Space for Indigenous Feminism features
feminist, queer and two-spirit voices from across generations and locations. Feminism has …

In this paper, I argue for a new way to understand the integration of facts and values in the
concept of mental disorder that has the potential to avoid the flaws of previous hybrid …

This chapter explores the significant influence that French philosopher Michel Foucault has
had on understanding how'madness' or'mental disorder'has been problematised and made …

In this chapter, we draw on a critical analysis of 120 inpatient charts from a large psychiatric
institution in Toronto, Ontario to examine the concept of 'insight'as it is operationalized by …

Women are more likely than men to be diagnosed as “mad,” from eighteenth and nineteenth
century diagnoses of “hysteria,” to twentieth and twenty-first diagnoses of “neurotic” and …

Purpose The paper aims to explore the anxiety of university students. The authors note that
the rhetoric of the snowflake is frequently invoked in lay discourse to characterise a …

This study investigates the intersection of race, gender, and criminality in the language
surrounding mental health and illness. Applying computational methods of word …

Outlining a feminist theoretical approach to qualitative research is not a simple process.
There are many different feminist theories, each with different priorities and practices …

This research examines the construction and experience of premenstrual syndrome (PMS)
in the context of intimate couple relationships, through examination of two contrasting cases …