She also included statistics from hospitals. In the book Chesler includes an analysis of famous women who had negative endings to their lives and mythological stories from Western tradition involving female characters with negative endings, as well as quotations from psychotherapists and male authors and quotes from female authors, some of whom were feminists. As part of the writing process, Chesler conducted interviews. Phyllis Chesler is a feminist psychotherapist. Claudia Pitts of National Louis University wrote that the book was "one of the earliest works of the second wave feminist movement to address issues such as the mistreatment of women, particularly in rape and incest female role models and spirituality in mental health services." Miriam Greenspan of the Los Angeles Review of Books described it as "a cultural watershed exposing how male-dominated psychiatry damages women." Background The work explores the effects on women in same-sex relationships and psychiatry/psychology in the third world. In the book, Chesler argues that women are negatively impacted by psychiatry and psychology due to the dominance of men in those fields. Women and Madness is a 1972 book by Phyllis Chesler.
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