Women and Madness

by Phyllis Chesler

  ———. “Rebel with a Cause.” On the Issues. Fall 1995.

  ———. “What is Justice for a Rape Victim.” On the Issues. Winter 1995.

  Chew, Lin. “Global Trafficking in Women: Some Issues and Strategies.” Women’s Studies Quarterly 1 & 2 (1999): 11–18.

  Comas-Diaz, L. “An Integrative Approach.” In Women of Color: Integrating Ethnic and Gender Identities in Psychotherapy Eds. L. Comas-Diaz & B. Greene. New York: Guilford Press, 1994, pp. 287–318.

  Comas-Diaz, Lillian and Frederick J. Jacobsen. “Psychopharmacology for Women of Color: An Empowering Approach.” Women and Therapy. Vol. 16, 1995.

  Chalifoux, Bonnie. “Speaking Up: White, Working-Class Women in Therapy.” Women and Therapy. Vol. 18, 1996.

  Copelon, Rhonda. “Surfacing Gender: Reconceptualizing Crimes Against Women in Time of War.” In Mass Rape: The War Against Women in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Ed. Alexandra Stiglymyer. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1992.

  Das Dasgupta, Shamita, ed. A Patchwork Shawl: Chronicles of South Asian Women in America. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1998.

  Denmark, Florence L. and Michèle A. Paludi, eds. Psychology of Women: A Handbook of Issues and Theories. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1993.

  Dorkenoo, Efua. “Combating Female Genital Mutilation: An Agenda for the Next Decade.” Women’s Studies Quarterly 1 & 2 (1999): 87–97.

  Douglas, Claire. Translate This Darkness: The Life of Christiana Morgan: The Veiled Woman in Jung’s Circle. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.

  Dumquah, Meri Nana-Ama. Willow Weep for Me, A Black Woman’s Journey Through Depression: A Memoir. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1998.

  Dutton, Donald G. and Susan K. Golant. The Batterer: A Psychological Profile. New York: Basic Books, 1995.

  Dworkin, Andrea. Letters from a War Zone. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 1993.

  Estes, Clarissa Pinkola. Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype. New York: Ballantine Books, 1992.

  Farley, M., I. Baral, M. Kiremire, and U. Sezgin. “Prostitution in Five Countries: Violence and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.” Feminism & Psychology 8, 4 (1998): 405–426.

  Feldmar, Andrew. R. D. Laing: Creative Destroyer. London: Cassell, 1997.

  Firestone, Shulamith. Airless Spaces. New York: Semiotext(e), 1998.

  Freyd, Jennifer J. Betrayal Trauma. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995.

  Geller, Jeffrey and Maxine Harris. Women of the Asylum: Voices from Behind the Walls, 1940–1945. New York: Anchor Books, 1994. Foreword by Phyllis Chesler.

  Geller, Jeffrey L. and Maxine Harris. Women of the Asylum: Voices from Behind the Walls 1840–1945. New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1994. Introduction by Phyllis Chesler.

  Gelso, Charles J., Ruth E. Fassinger, Maria J. Gomez, and Maria G. Latts. “Counter-transferences Reactions to Lesbian Clients: The Role of Homophobia, Counselor Gender, and Countertransference Management.” Journal of Counseling Psychology 42, 3 (1995): 356–364.

  Green, Dorsey. “When a Therapist Breaks the Rules.” Women and Therapy. Vol. 18, 1996.

  Greene, Beverly and Nancy Boyd-Franklin. “African-American Lesbian Couples: Ethnocultural Considerations in Psychotherapy.” Women and Therapy. Vol. 19, 1996.

  Grobe, Jeanine, ed. Beyond Bedlam: Contemporary Women Psychiatric Survivors Speak Out. Chicago: Third Side Press, 1995.

  Hall, Marney, Celia Kitzinger, Joanne Loulan, and Rachel Perkins. “Lesbian Psychology, Lesbian Politics.” Feminism and Psychology. Vol. 2, 1992.

  Halnon, Karen Bettez. Women’s Agency in Hysteria and Its Treatment. Michigan: UMI Company, 1995.

  Hamilton, Jean A. and Margaret F. Jensvold. “Sex and Gender as Critical Variables in Feminist Psychopharmacology Research and Pharmacology.” Women and Therapy. Vol. 16, 1995.

  Hammer, Barbara U. “Anti-Semitism As Trauma: A Theory of Jewish Communal Trauma Response.” In Jewish Women Speak Out. Eds. Kayla Weiner and Arinna Moon. 1995.

  Harris, Diane J. and Sue A. Kuba. “Ethnocultural Identity and Eating Disorders in Women of Color.” Professional Psychology: Research and Practice 28, 4 (1997): 341–347. American Psychological Association.

  Healy, Shevy. “Confronting Ageism: A Must for Mental Health.” Women and Therapy. Vol. 14, 1993.

  Heller, Tom, Jim Reynolds, Roger Gomm, Rosemary Muston, and Stephen Pattison. Mental Health Matters. London: Macmillan Press Limited, 1996.

  Herman, Judith Lewis. Trauma and Recovery. New York: Basic Books, 1992.

  Heron, Reva L., Diana P. Jacobs, Nadine J. Kaslow, and Heather B. Twomey. “Culturally Competent Interventions for Abused and Suicidal African American Women.” Psychotherapy 34, 4 (1997): 410–422.

  Hill, Marcia. “We Can’t Afford It: Confusions and Silences on the Topic of Class.” Women and Therapy. Vol. 18, 1996.

  Hite, Shere. “Write What You Want.” On the Issues. Vol. 4. 1995.

  Holtzman, Clare G. “Counseling Adult Women Rape Survivors: Issues of Race, Ethnicity, and Class.” Women and Therapy. Vol. 19, 1996.

  hooks, bell. Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 1993.

  Hughes, Donna M. “Defeating Woman-Haters.” FrontPageMagazine.com, January 17, 2005. http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16640, as accessed 4/14/2005.

  ———. “Iran’s Sex Slaves,” FrontPageMagazine.com. June 11, 2004.

  ———. “The Mullah’s Killing Fields.” FrontPageMagazine.com. December 14, 2004.

  Jamison, Kay Redfield. An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness. New York: Knopf, 1995.

  Kaschak, Ellyn. Engendered Lives: A New Psychology of Women’s Experience. New York: Basic Books, 1992.

  Kaschak, Ellyn and Marcia Hill. Beyond the Rule Book: Moral Issues and Dilemmas in the Practice of Psychotherapy. New York: The Haworth Press, 1999.

  Kaysen, Sussanah. Girl, Interrupted. New York: Vintage, 1994.

  Kerr, John. A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein. New York: Knopf, 1993.

  Kitzinger, Celia (with Rachel Perkins). Changing Our Minds: Lesbian Feminism and Psychology. New York: New York University Press, 1993.

  Kivel, Paul. “Raising Sons as Allies.” On the Issues. Vol. 5, 1996.

  Lalich, Janya. “Dominance and Submission: The Psychosexual Exploitation of Women in Cults.” Women and Therapy. Vol. 19, 1996.

  Lerman, Hannah. “The Practice of Ethics Within Feminist Therapy.” Women and Therapy. Vol. 15, 1994.

  Loulan, JoAnn. “Our Breasts, Ourselves.” Women and Therapy. Vol. 19, 1996.

  Mallinckrodt, Brent, Beverly A. McCreary, and Anne K. Robertson. “Co-Occurrence of Eating Disorders and Incest: The Role of Attachment, Family Environment, and Social Competencies.” Journal of Counseling Psychology 42, 2 (1995): 178–186.

  McGoey, Christine Schaack. “When Regular Guys Rape: The Trial of the Glen Ridge Four.” On the Issues. Fall 1993.

  McNair, Lily D. “African American Women in Therapy: An Afrocentric and Feminist Synthesis.” Women and Therapy. Vol. 12, 1992.

  McNair, Lily D. and Helen A. Neville. “African American Women Survivors of Sexual Assault: The Intersection of Race and Class.” Women and Therapy. Vol. 18, 1996.

  Miller, Jean Baker and Irene Stiver. The Healing Connection: How Women Form Relationships in Therapy and in Life. Boston: Beacon Press, 1997.

  Paludi, Michèle A. The Psychology of Women. Dubuque: WCB Brown & Benchmark, 1992.

  Pipher, Mary. Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls. New York: Putnam, 1994.

  Pope, Kenneth S. “Scientific Research, Recovered Memory, and Context: Seven Surprising Findings.” Women and Therapy. Vol. 19, 1996.

  Pope, Kenneth S. and Barbara G. Tabachnick. “The Therapist as a Person: Therapists’ Anger, Hate, Fear, and Sexual Feelings: National Survey of Therapist Responses, Client Characteristics, Critical Events, Formal Complaints, and T
raining,” 1993. http://kspope.com/therapistas/fearl.php, accessed 7/6/2005.

  Pope, Kenneth S. and Melba J. T. Vasquez. Ethics in Psychotherapy and Counseling: A Practical Guide, 2nd ed. San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 1998.

  Radford, Jill and Diana E. H. Russell, eds. Femicide: The Politics of Woman Killing. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1992.

  Raven, Arlene. “Judy Chicago: The Artist Critics Love to Hate.” On the Issues. Vol. 3, 1994.

  Renzetti, Claire M. Violent Betrayal: Partner Abuse in Lesbian Relationships. Newbury Park, California: Sage Publications, 1992.

  Rohrlich, Ruby. “Biology and Destiny.” On the Issues. Vol. 6, 1997.

  Rollins, Joan H. Women’s Minds, Women’s Bodies: The Psychology of Women in a Biosocial Context. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1996.

  Rothblum, Esther D. “The Rich Get Social Services and the Poor Get Capitalism.” Women and Therapy. Vol. 18, 1996.

  Russ, Joanna. What Are We Fighting for? Sex, Race, Class, and the Future of Feminism. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997.

  Sapinsley, Barbara. The Private War of Mrs. Packard. New York: Kodansha, 1995. Introduction by Phyllis Chesler.

  Sapinsley, Barbara. The Private War of Mrs. Packard. New York: Paragon House, 1991; with New Introduction by Phyllis Chesler, 1995.

  Shah, Sonia. Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 1997.

  Shaka Zulu, Nzinga. “Sex, Race, and the Stained-Glass Window.” Women and Therapy. Vol. 19, 1996.

  Sharratt, Sara and Ellyn Kaschak. Assault on the Soul: Women in the Former Yugoslavia. New York: The Haworth Press, 1999.

  Siegal, Rachel Josefowitz. “Between Midlife and Old Age: Never Too Old to Learn.” Women and Therapy. Vol. 14, 1993.

  Steinem, Gloria. “What If Freud Were Phyllis?” Moving Beyond Words. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.

  Stiglymyer, Alexandra, ed. “The Rapes in Bosnia-Herzegovina.” Mass Rape: The War Against Women in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1992.

  Strong, Marilee A. Bright Red Scream: Self-Mutilation and the Language of Pain. New York: Penguin, 1998.

  Teifer, Lenore. “Towards a Feminist Sex Therapy.” Women and Therapy. Vol. 19, 1996.

  Vaz, Kim Marie. “Racial Aliteracy: White Appropriation of Black Presences.” Women and Therapy. Vol. 16, 1995.

  Walker, Lenore E. “Psychology and Domestic Violence Around the World.” American Psychologist (1999). American Psychological Association.

  Weiner, Kayla and Arinna Moon, eds. Jewish Women Speak Out: Expanding the Boundaries Of Psychology. Seattle: Canopy Press, 1995. Foreword by Phyllis Chesler. See in addition: Kayla Weiner, “Survivors Nonetheless: Trauma in Women Not Directly Involved with the Holocaust.”

  Weiner, Kayla and Arinna Moon. Jewish Women Speak Out: Expanding the Boundaries of Psychology. Foreword by Phyllis Chesler. Seattle, WA: Canopy Press, 1995.

  Wolfe, Janet L. and Iris G. Fodor. “The Poverty of Privilege: Therapy with Women of the ‘Upper’ Classes.” Women and Therapy. Vol. 18, 1996.

  Wolper, Andrea. “Exporting Healing: American Rape Crisis Counselors in Bosnia.” On the Issues. Spring 1994.

  Wood, Mary Elene. The Writing On the Wall: Women’s Autobiography and the Asylum. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

  Wood, Mary Elene. The Writing on the Wall: Women’s Autobiography and the Asylum. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

  Wurtzel, Elizabeth. Prozac Nation. New York: Riverhead Books, 1994.

  Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth. The Anatomy of Prejudices. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996.

  2000–2005

  Caplan, Paula J. and Lisa Cosgrove, eds. Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis. Maryland: Jason Aronson, 2004. See especially: Ali, Alisha, “The Intersection of Racism and Sexism in Psychiatric Diagnosis”; Bullock, Heather E., “Diagnosis of Low-Income Women,” from Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis; Caplan, Emily J., “Psychiatric Diagnosis in the Legal System”; Cosgrove, Lisa and Bethany Riddle, “Gender Bias and Sex Distribution of Mental Disorders in the DSM-IV-TR”; Fish, Vincent, “Some Gender Biases in Diagnosing Traumatized Women”; Javed, Nayyar, “Clinical Cases and the Intersection of Sexism and Racism”; Poland, Jeffrey, “Bias and Schizophrenia”; Poland, Jeffrey and Paula J. Caplan, “The Deep Structure of Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis”; Profit, Wesley E., “Should Racism Be Classified As a Mental Illness?”; Rabinor, Judith R., “The ‘Eating-Disordered’ Patient”; Wiley, Autumn, “Abnormal Psychology Textbooks Exclude Feminist Criticisms of the DSM.”

  Chesler, Phyllis. Woman’s Inhumanity to Woman. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press/Nation Books, 2002; Plume, 2003.

  ———. The New Anti-Semitism. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003.

  ———. The Death of Feminism: What’s Next in the Struggle for Women’s Freedom. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

  ———. “The Psychoanalytic Roots of Islamic Terrorism.” FrontPageMagazine.com. May 3, 2004; www.phyllis-chesler.com.

  ———. ‘“Gender Cleansing’ in the Sudan.” FrontPage Magazine. July 26, 2004; www.phyllis-chesler.com

  ———. “Forced Female Suicide.” FrontPage Magazine. January 22, 2004; www.phyllis-chesler.com

  Chesler, Phyllis and Rivka Haut. Women of the Wall: Claiming Sacred Ground at Judaism’s Holy Site. Vermont: Jewish Lights Publishing, 2003.

  Chesler, Phyllis and Donna M. Hughes. “Feminism in the 21st Century.” Washington Post, February 22, 2004; www.phyllis-chesler.com.

  Chesler, Phyllis and Nancy H. Kobrin. “Osama, Bush and a Little Girl.” FrontPageMagazine.com. November 1, 2004; www.phyllis-chesler.com.

  Clarke, Victoria. “Stereotype, Attack and Stigmatize Those Who Disagree: Employing Scientific Rhetoric in Debates About Lesbian and Gay Parenting.” Feminism and Psychology 10, 1 (2000): 142–149. London: Sage.

  Clarke, Victoria. “The Lesbian Personality: A Reappraisal of June Hopkins’ Milestone Work.” Special Issues, Lesbian & Gay Psychology Review 3, 2 (2000). The British Psychological Society.

  Cottone, John G., Philip Drucker, and Rafael A. Javier. “Gender Differences in Psychotherapy Dyads: Changes in Psychological Symptoms and Responsiveness to Treatment During Three Months of Therapy.” Psychotherapy: Theory/Research/Practice/Training 39, 4 (2002): 297–308. Educational Publishing Foundation.

  Enns, Carolyn Zerbe. Feminist Theories and Feminist Psychotherapies: Origins, Themes, and Diversity, 2nd ed. New York: The Haworth Press, 2004.

  Farley, Melissa. Prostitution, Trafficking, and Traumatic Stress. New York: The Haworth Press, 2003.

  Graham, Jennifer E., Marci Lobel, and Robyn Stein DeLuca. “Anger After Childbirth: An Overlooked Reaction to Postpartum Stressors.” Psychology of Women Quarterly 26 (2002): 222–233. Division 35, American Psychological Association. Blackwell Publishing.

  Gregory, Julie. Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood. New York: Bantam, 2003.

  Guttmann, Melinda Given. The Enigma of Anna O.: A Biography of Bertha Pappenheim. Rhode Island: Moyer Bell, 2001.

  Hebald, Carol. The Heart Too Long Suppressed: A Chronicle of Mental Illness. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2001.

  Hubert, Susan. Questions of Power: The Politics of Women’s Madness Narratives. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2002.

  Jackson, Helene, Leonard Diller, Ronald L. Nuttall, and Elizabeth Philip. “Traumatic Brain Injury: A Hidden Consequence for Battered Women.” Professional Psychology: Research and Practice 33, 1 (2002): 39–45. American Psychological Association.

  Jackson, Leslie and Beverly Greene, eds. Psychotherapy with African American Women: Innovations in Psychodynamic Perspectives and Practice. New York: Guilford Press, 2000.

  Kettlewell, Carolyn. Skin Game: A Memoir. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000.

  Kline, Ruth. It Coulda Been Worse: Surviving a Lifetime of Abuse and Mental Illness. North Carolina: Pentland Press, Inc./Ivy House Publishing, 2003.

  Klono
ff, Elizabeth A., Hope Landrine, and Robin Campbell. “Sexist Discrimination May Account for Well-Known Gender Differences In Psychiatric Symptoms.” Psychology of Women Quarterly 24 (2000): 93–99. Division 35, American Psychological Association. USA: Cambridge University Press.

  Knapp, Caroline. Appetites: Why Women Want. New York: Counterpoint, 2003.

  Kobrin, Nancy. “Political Domestic Violence in Ibrahim’s Family: A Psychoanalystic Perspective.” In Eroticisms: Love, Sex and Perversion, vol. 5. Eds. J. Piven, C. Boyd, and H. Lawton. New York: iUniverse, Inc., 2003; also in Terrorism, Jihad and Sacred Vengeance. Giessen: Psychosoziel-Verlag, 2004.

  Kobrin, Nancy and Yoram Schweitzer. “The Sheik’s New Clothes: Islamic Suicide Terrorism and What It’s Really All About.” Introduction by Phyllis Chesler. Unpublished Manuscript.

  Murphy, Julie A., Edna I. Rawlings, and Steven R. Howe. “A Survey of Clinical Psychologists on Treating Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients.” Professional Psychology: Research and Practice 33, 2 (2002): 183–189. American Psychological Association.

  National Institute of Mental Health. “The Numbers Count: Mental Disorders in America.” http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/numbers.cfm, accessed 7/11/2005.

  National Research Center on Asian American Mental Health. http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/nrcaamh/Publications/, accessed 7/12/2005.

  Pope, Kenneth S., James N. Butcher, and Joyce Seelen. The MMPI, MMPI-2, and MMPI-A In Court: A Practical Guide for Expert Witnesses and Attorneys, 2nd ed. American Psychological Association, 2000.

  Pope, Kenneth S. and Melba J. T. Vasquez. How To Survive and Thrive as a Therapist: Information, Ideas & Resources for Psychologists. American Psychological Association, 2005.

  Rabin, Claire Low. Understanding Gender and Culture in the Helping Process: Practitioners’ Narratives from Global Perspectives. Foreword by Phyllis Chesler. California: Wadsworth, 2005.

  Reiland, Rachel. Get Me Out Of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder. Minnesota: Hazelden Publishing and Educational Services, 2004.

  Rickhi, Badri, Hude Quan, Sabine Moritz, Dipl Biol, Heather L. Stuart, and Julio Arboleda-Florez. “Original Research: Mental Disorders and Reasons for Using Complementary Therapy.” 2003. http://www/cpa-apc.org/Publica-tions/Archives/CJP/2003/august/rickhi.asp, accessed 7/11/2005. Canadian Psychiatric Association—Study.