Full Description
This book examines sex and gender differences in the causes and expression of medical conditions, including mental health disorders.
Sex differences are variations attributable to individual reproductive organs and the XX or XY chromosomal complement. Gender differences are variations that result from biological sex as well as individual self-representation which include psychological, behavioural, and social consequences of an individual's perceived gender.
Gender is still a neglected field in psychopathology, and gender differences is often incorrectly used as a synonym of sex differences. A reconsideration of the definition of gender, as the term that subsumes masculinity and femininity, could shed some light on this misperception and could have an effect in the study of health and disease.
This second edition of Psychopathology clarifies the anthropological, cultural and social aspects of gender and their impact on mental health disorders. It focuses ongender perspective as a paradigm not only in psychopathology but also in mental health disorders. As such it promotes open mindedness in the definition and perception of symptoms, as well as assumptions about those symptoms, and raises awareness of mental health.
Contents
Historical and Cultural Aspects: Women and mental Health all over the world.- Sex, Brain and Gender: Neurobiology.- Sexual Differentiation of the Human Nervous System.- Psychosocial Aspects.- Specific Pathology in Women: Body Image, Corporality and Corporeality.- Body and corporality.- Concept and History of Body Image.- Body and Hysteria: Dissociated body.- Corporality and Trauma.- Dysmorphophobia: From Neuroticism to Psychoticism.- Self Identity and Gender differences.- Psychopathology of Eating Behavior.- Anorexia Nervosa.- Bulimia Nervosa.- Binge Eating Disorder.- Eating Disorder not otherwise specified.- Avoidant/ restrictive food intake disorders.- Psychopathology of Sexuality.- Psychopathology of Life Instinct.- Psychopathology associated to Hormonal Aspects: Relation of Estrogen, cycle phases and Psychopathology in Women.- Dysphoric Syndrome.- Depression during Pregnancy.- Postpartum and postnatal depression.- Puerperal Psychosis.- Menopause Depression.- Psychopathology andGender in Psychiatric Syndromes and New Disorders: Mood Disorders.- Anxiety Disorders.- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.- Schizophrenia.- Bipolar Disorder.- Personality Disorders and Gender Differences.- Borderline Personality Disorder.- Addiction.- Social and cultural differences.- Somatomorphic and Factitious Disorders.- Psychopathology Gender, Creativity, Body Art and Feminism.- Controversial Aspects
