First Aid or The Female Body in Mind

First Aid

Author: Alton L Thygerson

First Aid, is a dynamic course for those who want first aid training without the CPR and AED component.

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The Female Body in Mind

Author: Mervat Nasser

The Female Body in Mind introduces new ways of thinking about issues of women's mental health assessment and treatment. Its multidisciplinary approach incorporates social, psychological, biological and philosophical perspectives on the female body. The contributions, from notable academics in the field of women's mental health, examine the relationship between women's bodies, society and culture, demonstrating how the body has become a platform for women's expression of their distress and anguish. The book is divided into six sections, all centred on the theme of the body, covering: The body at risk. The hurting body. The reproductive body. The interactive body. Body-sensitive therapies. The body on my mind. All professionals involved in women's mental health will welcome this exploration of the complexities involved in the relationship between women's bodies and their mental health.

Table of Contents:

Contributors     viii
Preface     xi
Acknowledgment     xiv
The body in question     xv
The body at risk     1
At risk by reason of gender   Helen Malson   Mervat Nasser     3
(Re)figuring identities: My body is what I am   Finn Skarderud   Mervat Nasser     17
The hurting body     29
Deliberate self harm   Jane Bunclark     31
Psychological trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder   Walter Busuttil     41
The trauma of self starvation: Eating disorders and body image   Janet Treasure     57
Breast cancer and body image   Stirling Moorey     72
The reproductive body     91
Women's bodies: Natural history and biological programming   Dora Kohen     93
"On being a mother": Motherhood and mental health   Karen Baistow     104
Sad motherhood: An overview of perinatal affective disorders   Kirsten Patrick   Veronica O'Keane     119
Women who kill their babies   Sarah Davenport   Sandra Flynn   Jenny Shaw     132
The interactive body     147
Society and women's distress   Tirril Harris     149
When the personal gets in the way of the (inter)personal   Tennyson Lee     162
Care and blame: The dialectic of caring   Joanna Murray     178
Concepts of body and self in minority groups   Mervat Nasser   Dinesh Bhugra   Vanessa Chow     192
Body-sensitive therapies     203
Feminist therapies   Melanie Katzman   Mervat Nasser   Greta Noordenbos     205
Self-help and healing narratives   Ulrike Schmidt   Varinia Sanchez-Ortiz     214
Dialectical behaviour therapy: A treatment for borderline personality disorder   Bob Palmer   Debbie Whight     228
Gender and psychopharmacology   Ruth I. Ohlsen   Lyn S. Pilowsky     238
The body on my mind     253
Do women need specific services?   Janet Davies   Sue Waterhouse     255
Gender-sensitive education and gender competence training: The perspective of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and beyond   Rosalind Ramsay   Nisha Dogra     266
Index     280