I went to my bookshelf and pulled down Phyllis Chesler's Women and Madness and also her book About Men, a Playboy Book Selection at the time. The book on women - she is a qualified psychologist says the back blurb - is one that really helped me understand the damage done to my mother and our family by the label given to her of "paranoid schizophrenic" by the psychiatric community. I can't say what she is writing about now in this latest book, which is a memoir about a time in her life I had not known about. I might check out the book for myself. Danusha, want to send me your copy? Christina Pacosz
I went to my bookshelf and pulled down Phyllis Chesler's Women and Madness and also her book About Men, a Playboy Book Selection at the time.
ReplyDeleteThe book on women - she is a qualified psychologist says the back blurb - is one that really helped me understand the damage done to my mother and our family by the label given to her of "paranoid schizophrenic" by the psychiatric community. I can't say what she is writing about now in this latest book, which is a memoir about a time in her life I had not known about. I might check out the book for myself. Danusha, want to send me your copy? Christina Pacosz