Women and madness / Phyllis Chesler.

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

x, 406 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

1st ed., rev. and updated.

"Revised and updated for the first time in thirty years"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-389) and index.

Why madness? -- Asylums -- The clinicians -- The female career as a psychiatric patient -- Sex between patient and therapist -- Psychiatrically institutionalized women -- Lesbians -- Third world women -- Feminists -- Female psychology : past, present, and future.