Out of Her Mind
How We Are Failing Women's Mental Health and What Must Change
Author(s): Linda Gask
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For centuries so called 'difficult women' have been labelled as 'hysterical' and 'out of their minds'. Today they wait longer for health diagnoses, often being told it's 'all in their heads'. Although healthcare systems are overburdened, why are women the first to feel the effects of this? Why is it so hard for women to find the kind of help they need? Why is no one listening to them? And why have so many lost faith in mental healthcare? Drawing on the lived experiences of women, alongside expert commentators, recent history, current events, and her own personal and professional experience, Dr Linda Gask explores women's mental healthcare today. In doing so she confronts her role as a psychiatrist, recalling experiences treating women and as a woman who has received mental healthcare, illustrating the dire need for more change, faster. Women can't all be out of their minds.
- Grounded in the real-life experiences of women with whom readers will be able to identify
- Provides an informed, referenced, and balanced overview of what is happening to women's mental health and what must change
- Written in an accessible, engaging, and readable style that includes reference to recent history, and literature as well as dealing with the complexity of mental health and illness
- Each chapter concludes with a section on 'What must change?' which not only identifies the key problems facing women but suggests ways that changes can be achieved
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