Psychopathology in Women : Incorporating Gender Perspective into Descriptive Psychopathology
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat44624
Margarita Sáenz-Herrero, editor.
(Second edition)
--Cham:
Springer
, c2019.
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This book examines sex and gender differences in the causes and expression of medical conditions, including mental health disorders. Sex differences are variations attributable to individual reproductive organs and the XX or XY chromosomal complement. Gender differences are variations that result from biological sex as well as individual self-representation which include psychological, behavioural, and social consequences of an individual’s perceived gender. Gender is still a neglected field in…
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- Sáenz-Herrero, Margarita
- Responsibility
- Margarita Sáenz-Herrero, editor
- Edition
- Second edition
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2019
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xiii, 883 p.) : 19 illus., 13 illus. in color
- ISBN
- 9783030151799
- 9783030151782 (Print ed.)
- 9783030151805 (Print ed.)
- 9783030151812 (Print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Body Dysmorphic Disorders
- Gender Identity
- Mental Disorders - etiology
- Personality Development
- Psychosexual Development
- Sex Factors
- Women's Health
- Specialty
- Psychiatry
- Women's Health
- Abstract
- This book examines sex and gender differences in the causes and expression of medical conditions, including mental health disorders. Sex differences are variations attributable to individual reproductive organs and the XX or XY chromosomal complement. Gender differences are variations that result from biological sex as well as individual self-representation which include psychological, behavioural, and social consequences of an individual’s perceived gender. Gender is still a neglected field in psychopathology, and gender differences is often incorrectly used as a synonym of sex differences. A reconsideration of the definition of gender, as the term that subsumes masculinity and femininity, could shed some light on this misperception and could have an effect in the study of health and disease. This second edition of Psychopathology clarifies the anthropological, cultural and social aspects of gender and their impact on mental health disorders. It focuses on gender perspective as a paradigm not only in psychopathology but also in mental health disorders. As such it promotes open mindedness in the definition and perception of symptoms, as well as assumptions about those symptoms, and raises awareness of mental health.
- Contents
- Part I. General Aspects -- 1. Women Mental Health All over the World: Sociopolitical Aspects of Gender Discrimination and Violence: Immigration and Transnational Motherhood -- 2. What Is Human Resilience and Why Does It Matter? -- 3. Intimate Partner Violence Against Women: Impact on Mental Health -- 4. Sexual Violence: Effects on Women’s Identity and Mental Health -- 5. Traumatic Life Events and High Risk for the Development of Psychopathology -- Part II. Sex and Gender as a Multidimensional Concept -- 6. Improving Our Science in Research with Sex- and Gender-Based Analysis -- 7. Transgenderism and Mental Health from a Non-pathologizing Perspective 8. Gender and Psychological Differences: Gender and Subjectivity -- 9. Self-Identity and Gender Differences -- 10. Psychosexual Development, Intersex States, and Sexual Dysfunctions -- Part III. Gender and Psychopathology -- 11. Gender, Corporality, and Body Image -- 12. Body and Hysteria: Dissociated Body -- 13. Dysmorphophobia: From Neuroticism to Psychoticism -- 14. Eating Disorders -- 15. Desire and Submission -- 16. Life Instinct and Gender -- 17. Use, Misuse and Gender Differences -- 18. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (and Gender) in Psychosis But Were Afraid to Ask: A Narrative Review -- Part IV. Mental Health Disorders Related to Hormonal Aspects -- 19. Adolescent Depression -- 20. Premenstrual Experience, Premenstrual Syndrome, and Dysphoric Disorder -- 21. Abortion and Mental Health -- 22. Pregnancy Depression from a Gender Perspective -- 23. Perinatal Depression -- 24. Puerperal Psychosis -- 25. Psychological Symptoms and Treatment in the Menopause -- Part V. Gender in Psychiatric Disorders -- 26. Affective Disorders and Gender Differences -- 27. Anxiety Disorders -- 28. Gender Differences in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder -- 29. Gender and First Psychotic Episodes in Adolescence -- 30. Schizophrenia and Gender -- 31. Gender Differences in Bipolar Disorder -- 32. Mixed Forms in Bipolar Disorder and Relation to Gender -- 33. Borderline Personality Spectrum -- 34. Somatoform and Factitious Disorders -- 35. Pathological Gambling: Clinical Gender Differences -- Part VI. Psychopathology, Art, and Gender -- 36. Art Therapy and Gender -- Part VII. Gender Bias in Research. How Does It affect to Mental Health? -- 37. Gender Bias in Research: How Does It Affect Mental Health?
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
