Women and Depression: Recovery and Resistance

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ISBN: 9780415404310 | 0415404312
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Copyright: 2/5/2009

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Looks at women's experiences of living well after depression and argues that the social construction of femininity is dangerous for women's health. Topics include negotiating identity and the medicalization of women's misery. For students and psychotherapists. Softcover, hardcover available. DNLM: Depressive Disorder--therapy.

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Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction: studying women's experiences of recovery from depression	p. 1
Recovery from depression: a neglected topic of inquiry	p. 2
Research on recovery	p. 6
The research projects	p. 7
Chapter outline	p. 10
Terminological troubles: a final word on words	p. 12
Narratives of depression	p. 14
Traumatic and chronic experiences: violence by men against women and women's experiences of poverty	p. 16
Interpersonal relationships	p. 21
Women's everyday lives: marriage, motherhood, and martyrdom	p. 25
The dismissal of women's distress	p. 43
The medicalization of women's misery	p. 53
Assumptions of biomedicine: when objective science fails subjective experience	p. 57
Silencing the self, masking the pain	p. 63
Conclusion	p. 65
Recovery from depression	p. 67
Narratives of recovery through medical remedy	p. 68
Narratives of personal transformation: recovery as resistance of the 'good' woman identity	p. 85
Conclusion	p. 106
Struggling to self-care: the material and discursive context of women's health practices	p. 109
Terminological troubles - revisited	p. 113
Constraints to women's self-care: a material-discursive analysis	p. 114
Talking about self-care: endorsing and accommodating discourses of femininity	p. 129
Talking about self-care: resisting and transcending discourses of femininity	p. 158
Conclusion	p. 172
Conclusion: implications for usefulness	p. 174
The value in attending to stories of recovery and well-being	p. 179
Deconstructing bio-power: the need for alternative understandings of pain, distress, and dis-ease	p. 181
The 'good' woman is alive and unwell: the need for deconstruction and resistance of discourses of femininity	p. 185
Understanding women's struggle to self-care	p. 191
Conclusion	p. 193
A brief discussion of epistemology, social constructionism, and discourse	p. 195
Additional information about the research participants and interview process	p. 204
Transcript notation	p. 206
References	p. 208
Index	p. 230
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