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Contributors | p. viii |
Preface | p. xi |
Acknowledgment | p. xiv |
The body in question | p. xv |
The body at risk | p. 1 |
At risk by reason of gender | p. 3 |
(Re)figuring identities: My body is what I am | p. 17 |
The hurting body | p. 29 |
Deliberate self harm | p. 31 |
Psychological trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder | p. 41 |
The trauma of self starvation: Eating disorders and body image | p. 57 |
Breast cancer and body image | p. 72 |
The reproductive body | p. 91 |
Women's bodies: Natural history and biological programming | p. 93 |
"On being a mother": Motherhood and mental health | p. 104 |
Sad motherhood: An overview of perinatal affective disorders | p. 119 |
Women who kill their babies | p. 132 |
The interactive body | p. 147 |
Society and women's distress | p. 149 |
When the personal gets in the way of the (inter)personal | p. 162 |
Care and blame: The dialectic of caring | p. 178 |
Concepts of body and self in minority groups | p. 192 |
Body-sensitive therapies | p. 203 |
Feminist therapies | p. 205 |
Self-help and healing narratives | p. 214 |
Dialectical behaviour therapy: A treatment for borderline personality disorder | p. 228 |
Gender and psychopharmacology | p. 238 |
The body on my mind | p. 253 |
Do women need specific services? | p. 255 |
Gender-sensitive education and gender competence training: The perspective of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and beyond | p. 266 |
Index | p. 280 |
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