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Rethinking Mental Health and Disorder: Feminist Perspectives

Rethinking Mental Health and Disorder: Feminist Perspectives Arch Womens Ment Health (2003) 6:219 DOI 10.1007/s00737-003-0016-6 Book Review useful chapters present feminist thought as it pertains to premenstrual Mary Ballou, Laura S. Brown (eds.). The Guilford Press, syndrome and postpartum depression (Joan Chrisler and Ingrid New York, 2002. 314 pp, $68.85 CAD Johnston-Robledo), treatment of personality disorders (Margo Rivera) and alcohol and drug addiction in women (Lynn Collins). In this volume, editors Mary Ballou and Laura S. Brown provide a Among the contributors are a number of established feminist psy- comprehensive update to their 1992 book, Personality and Psycho- chologists, though all being from North America, the book lacks an pathology: Feminist Reappraisals. Ballou and Brown have made impor- international perspective. Similarly, despite the editors’ suggestion tant contributions to both the theory and practice of feminist psychology, that no single discipline is adequate to explain human nature and in and so the topics discussed in this book are relevant not only to psy- particular the emotional and intellectual lives of women, all but a chological theory, but also to clinical psychology practice. few contributors hail from psychology backgrounds. As such, the In the preface, the editors challenge themselves and their readers book does not really offer an http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Archives of Women's Mental Health Springer Journals

Rethinking Mental Health and Disorder: Feminist Perspectives

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Rethinking Mental Health and Disorder: Feminist Perspectives

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Arch Womens Ment Health (2003) 6:219 DOI 10.1007/s00737-003-0016-6 Book Review useful chapters present feminist thought as it pertains to premenstrual Mary Ballou, Laura S. Brown (eds.). The Guilford Press, syndrome and postpartum depression (Joan Chrisler and Ingrid New York, 2002. 314 pp, $68.85 CAD Johnston-Robledo), treatment of personality disorders (Margo Rivera) and alcohol and drug addiction in women (Lynn Collins). In this volume, editors Mary Ballou and Laura S. Brown provide a...
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2003 by Springer-Verlag/Wien
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LifeSciences
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1434-1816
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10.1007/s00737-003-0016-6
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Arch Womens Ment Health (2003) 6:219 DOI 10.1007/s00737-003-0016-6 Book Review useful chapters present feminist thought as it pertains to premenstrual Mary Ballou, Laura S. Brown (eds.). The Guilford Press, syndrome and postpartum depression (Joan Chrisler and Ingrid New York, 2002. 314 pp, $68.85 CAD Johnston-Robledo), treatment of personality disorders (Margo Rivera) and alcohol and drug addiction in women (Lynn Collins). In this volume, editors Mary Ballou and Laura S. Brown provide a Among the contributors are a number of established feminist psy- comprehensive update to their 1992 book, Personality and Psycho- chologists, though all being from North America, the book lacks an pathology: Feminist Reappraisals. Ballou and Brown have made impor- international perspective. Similarly, despite the editors’ suggestion tant contributions to both the theory and practice of feminist psychology, that no single discipline is adequate to explain human nature and in and so the topics discussed in this book are relevant not only to psy- particular the emotional and intellectual lives of women, all but a chological theory, but also to clinical psychology practice. few contributors hail from psychology backgrounds. As such, the In the preface, the editors challenge themselves and their readers book does not really offer an

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