Trauma Womens Mental Health and Social Justice by Emma Tseris PAPERBACK

Taylor & Francis

Trauma, Womens Mental Health, and Social JusticePitfalls and Possibilities\nAuthor(s): Emma Tseris\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367660277, 978-0367660277\nSynopsis\nThis book argues that while notions of trauma in mental health hold promise for the advancement of womens rights, the mainstreaming of trauma treatments and therapies has had mixed implications, sometimes replacing genuine social change efforts with new forms of female oppression by psychiatry. It contends that trauma interventions often represent a \""business as usual\"" approach within psychiatry, with women being expected to comply with rigid treatment protocols, accepting the advice given by trauma \""experts\"" that they are mentally unstable and that they must learn to manage the effects of violence in the absence of any real changes to their circumstances or resources. A critique of trauma treatment in its current form, Trauma, Womens Mental .