![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “a male ethic of mental health” based on the Invisible and sometimes explicit assumptions of patriarchal society. A woman is classified as “healthy,” “neurotic” or “psychotic” according to. The norms for female behavior are determined by men, and are different from the norms for male behav ior. Now Phyllis Chesler, a psychol ogist and a feminist, confronts these questions and links them inextricably with the condition of women in patriarchal society.Ĭhesler's thesis is that in the male‐dominated professions of psychology and psychiatry, and in a society which devalues women and socializes them to devalue themselves, judgments about mental health and mental illness, forms of treatment and definitions of cure, are necessarily patriarchal. Their works attempt to link the definitions of pathology and health, the methods used for treatment, and the immense influence wielded in society by those who decided who is mad and who is sane these writers connect the clinician's judgments with the realm of political power. The modern practice of psychic healing and the modem mental “asylum” have been questioned-historically, polit ically, in terms of their invisible social assumptions -by professionals like Michel Foucault, Erving Goffman, Thomas Szasz, R. ![]() Critiques of the psychotherapeutic professions and their institutions are nothing new. ![]()
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