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Bonnie Burstow (1945–2020)

Teoksen Radical Feminist Therapy: Working in the Context of Violence tekijä

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Bonnie Burstow is Senior Lecturer at the University of Toronto, Canada. She is a philosopher, feminist therapist, and an antipsychiatry activist. Her other works include Radical Feminist Therapy (1992), Psychiatry Disrupted (2014), Toward a Radical Understanding of Trauma and Trauma Work (2003), näytä lisää and A Rose by Any Other Name: Naming and the Battle against Psychiatry (2013). näytä vähemmän

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Syntymäaika
1945
Kuolinaika
2020-01-04
Sukupuoli
female
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Psychotherapist

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Hard to review a memoir (even a fictionalized one). This woman underwent psychiatric treatment in the 1970's and came out of that pretty... damaged. Electroconvulsive therapy would do that to someone. Oh, and the medications... they certainly wouldn't have helped her "recovery".

I suppose, if you're a supporter of hard-core medical interventions as "treatment", you would have a different perspective on this book. If, otoh, you believe that some people - in particular middle-aged and female people - might have responded better to a different type of treatment for depression than shock therapy, heavy medications and being "required" to return to the living situation that stimulated the depression in the first place...

But, anyway, I'm not a therapist and certainly wouldn't want to conclude that women in the 70s might have been "cured" through methods that might not have been necessary if women were allowed to be, I dunno, real people and not have to fit some stereotype.
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8
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111
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#175,484
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