Psychopathology in Women Incorporating Gender Perspective into Descriptive Psychopathology /

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 fr...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Sáenz-Herrero, Margarita (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
Edition:2nd ed. 2019.
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • Historical and Cultural Aspects: Women and mental Health all over the world
  • Sex, Brain and Gender: Neurobiology
  • Sexual Differentiation of the Human Nervous System
  • Psychosocial Aspects
  • Specific Pathology in Women: Body Image, Corporality and Corporeality
  • Body and corporality
  • Concept and History of Body Image
  • Body and Hysteria: Dissociated body
  • Corporality and Trauma
  • Dysmorphophobia: From Neuroticism to Psychoticism
  • Self Identity and Gender differences
  • Psychopathology of Eating Behavior
  • Anorexia Nervosa
  • Bulimia Nervosa
  • Binge Eating Disorder
  • Eating Disorder not otherwise specified
  • Avoidant/ restrictive food intake disorders
  • Psychopathology of Sexuality
  • Psychopathology of Life Instinct
  • Psychopathology associated to Hormonal Aspects: Relation of Estrogen, cycle phases and Psychopathology in Women
  • Dysphoric Syndrome
  • Depression during Pregnancy
  • Postpartum and postnatal depression
  • Puerperal Psychosis
  • Menopause Depression
  • Psychopathology and Gender in Psychiatric Syndromes and New Disorders: Mood Disorders
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
  • Schizophrenia
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Personality Disorders and Gender Differences
  • Borderline Personality Disorder
  • Addiction
  • Social and cultural differences
  • Somatomorphic and Factitious Disorders
  • Psychopathology Gender, Creativity, Body Art and Feminism
  • Controversial Aspects.