Geller J L
Hosp Community Psychiatry. 1985 Oct;36(10):1056-62. doi: 10.1176/ps.36.10.1056.
Throughout the past century and a half, American women have written published accounts dealing with their mental illness and its treatment, yet this area of literature has been largely overlooked by those who study the relationship between gender and mental health. In their widely varying accounts--some autobiography, some thinly disguised fiction, and some poetry--women have provided valuable insights into the relationship between their mental illness and its treatment and their roles as wives, daughters, victims, and advocates. The accounts also reflect the impact of female-oriented psychiatric therapies, cultivation of stereotypical female behaviors, and deinstitutionalization policies on women psychiatric patients. The author illustrates these themes with passages from the approximately 175 accounts he has located to date.
在过去的一个半世纪里，美国女性撰写并发表了关于她们的精神疾病及其治疗的记录，但研究性别与心理健康关系的人在很大程度上忽略了这一文学领域。在她们千差万别的记录中——有些是自传，有些是伪装得很巧妙的小说，还有些是诗歌——女性提供了宝贵的见解，涉及她们的精神疾病及其治疗与她们作为妻子、女儿、受害者和倡导者的角色之间的关系。这些记录还反映了以女性为导向的心理治疗、对刻板女性行为的培养以及非机构化政策对女性精神病患者的影响。作者用他迄今找到的大约175份记录中的段落来说明这些主题。
