Sex Roles and Psychopathology

Psychopathology is the science of deviant behavior. However, as psy­ chopathologists, our explanations of deviant behavior are not developed in a sterile, laboratory environment. Abnormality is a relative concept, and the labeling of someone or some behavior as abnormal is inextrica­ bly linked to a...

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Other Authors: Widom, Cathy (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 1984, 1984
Edition:1st ed. 1984
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • I Introduction
  • 1 Sex Roles and Psychopathology
  • 2 A Historical Perspective
  • II Neurotic, Affective, and Schizophrenic Disorders
  • 3 Gender Ideology and Phobias in Women
  • 4 Hysteria
  • 5 Sex Roles and Psychophysiological Disorders: Coronary Heart Disease
  • 6 Depression in Relation to Sex Roles: Differences in Learned Susceptibility and Precipitating Factors
  • 7 Suicide
  • 8 Schizophrenia
  • III Social Deviation and Sexual Dysfunction
  • 9 Sex Roles, Criminality, and Psychopathology
  • 10 A Sex-Roles Perspective on Drug and Alcohol Use by Women
  • 11 Sex Roles and Sexual Dysfunction
  • IV Age-Related Disorders
  • 12 Sex-Related Differences in the Epidemiology of Child Psychopathology
  • 13 Sex-Role Stereotypes and the Development of Eating Disorders
  • 14 Senescence, Sex Roles, and Stress: Shepherding Resources into Old Age
  • V Societal Management and Control
  • 15 Sex Roles, Psychological Assessment, and Patient Management
  • 16 Sex Roles in Medicine