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By Wendy Chan, Dorothy E. Chunn, Robert Menzies
This e-book explores, for the 1st time in an edited assortment, the intersection of 3 key learn parts - ladies, insanity and the legislation - and advances the debates on how legislations and the 'psy' sciences play a severe position in regulating and controlling women's lives.
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However, after puberty the situation is reversed, so estimates of the ratio of women to men suffering from disorders such as depression or anxiety range from 6:1 to 5:3. Community surveys, hospital admissions and statistics on outpatient treatment (both medical and psychological) all concur: women report more mental health problems than men, and are more likely to be diagnosed and treated for madness (Bebbington, 1996; Busfield, 1996; Stoppard, 2000; World Health Organisation, 2003). For decades, researchers have searched for the factors underlying this gender difference, claiming that if we can explain it, we will have the key to understanding mental health problems per se (for example, Bebbington, 1996).
Sim’s unnerving essay ‘At the Centre of the New Professional Gaze: Women, Medicine and Confinement’ picks up the 21st century threads of his 1990 Medical Power in Prisons by: (1) depicting how recent trends in ‘health promotion’ for imprisoned women reinscribe their status as ‘less eligible subjects’ in a remorselessly gender-contoured and increasingly racialised carceral realm that inexorably widens its terrain and consolidates its grip over captive women and men; (2) charting the manoeuvres of a new generation of experts in the criminality of women, whose ‘cleansing psychological and psychic interventions are designed to create the born-again, nurturing, female subject’; (3) linking medico-penal power over and against women to the ‘authoritarian modernisation of the criminal justice system’ sponsored by Tony Blair ’s New Labour, and the gender scripts and familial/community ideologies that fuel its policies toward ‘deviant’ and ‘deficient’ women ‘in need’; and (4) arguing, unsettlingly, that the ‘new’ regimes of therapy, care, health promotion and risk management are inherently latticed to, and inevitably serve, ‘the coruscating discourses of paramilitary discipline and neoliberal, financial managerialism that dominate contemporary penal arrangements’.
This is what I want to try to do here. At the time of writing, I am personally engaged in research, clinical practice and critical thinking on the subject of women’s madness. I no longer feel that there is an irreconcilable tension between these three levels of analysis or exploration. The research and clinical practice I am engaged in is not on the margins (at least as I see it), but situated in the mainstream of psychology. My aim is to have an impact not only on critical thinking, but on the way mainstream research constructs and treats women deemed ‘mad’.