Women's Encounters with the Mental Health Establishment

This unique contemporary anthology of women's experiential writing shares women's realities, perceptions, and experiences (positive and negative) within the therapeutic environment. Including the classic story “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and works by Sylvia Plath, Kate Millett, Anne Sexton, and more, these artistic expressions of personal experience will help women understand their own encounters in a new light. They are also instructive and enlightening for any practitioner working with women in a mental health setting. Through prose and poetry, the contributors to this volume offer a creative, artistic, and highly readable contribution to the literatures of women's studies and psychology!

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