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"Blends memoir with literary journalism to examine America's history of mental illness treatments to challenge contemporary narratives about mental health, questioning what it means to be a woman with highly stigmatized disorders and asking why mental illness continues to escalate in the United States despite so many 'cures'"--
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Mental illness, Mental health, History, Treatment, WomenPeople
Sarah Fawn MontgomeryPlaces
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Table of Contents
The influence of intervention
The sick role
Nature or nurture
An American diagnosis
Patient history
My voice for their drugs
A female malady
Learned behavior
The world we've made for women
Editing
Molecular myths
Bitter pills
Rebuffed
Delicates
Unbearable weight
Rapture in May
Occam's razor
Compulsion
Moral treatment
Taking up space
Turning around
Is satisfied enough?
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-295).
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