The Female Body in Mind

Mervat Nasser is Consultant Psychiatrist and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Kings College University (Guys Campus), London. Karen Baistow is Director of the Mental Health Studies Programme at King's College (Guys Campus), London. Janet Treasure is Professor and Head of the Academic Department of Psychiatry, King's College (Guys Campus), London, and Head of the Eating Disorders Research Unit at the Institute of Psychiatry, London.

Preface. The Body in Question. Part I: The Body at Risk. Malson, Nasser, At Risk by Reason of Gender. Skrderud, Nasser, (Re)Figuring Identities: My Body is What I Am. Part II: The Hurting Body. Bunclark, Deliberate Self Harm. Busuttil, Psychological Trauma and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. Treasure, The Trauma of Self Starvation: Eating Disorders and Body Image. Moorey, Breast Cancer and Body Image. Part III: The Reproductive Body. Kohen, Women's Bodies: Natural History and Biological Programming. Baistow, "On Being a Mother": Motherhood and Mental Health. Patrick, OKeane, Sad Motherhood: An Overview of Perinatal Affective Disorders. Davenport, Flynn, Shaw, Women Who Kill Their Babies. Part IV: The Interactive Body. Harris, Society and Womens Distress. Lee, When the Personal Gets in the Way of the (Inter)Personal. Murray, Care and Blame: The Dialectic of Caring. Nasser, Bhugra, Chow, Concepts of Body and Self in Minority Groups. Part V: Body-sensitive Therapies. Katzman, Nasser, Noordenbos, Feminist Therapies. Schmidt, Snchez-Ortiz, Self-help and Healing Narratives. Palmer, Whight, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy: A Treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder. Ohlsen, Pilowsky, Gender and Psychopharmacology. Part VI: The Body on My Mind. Davies, Waterhouse, Do Women Need Specific Services? Ramsay, Dogra, Gender-sensitive Education and Gender Competence Training. The Perspective of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and Beyond.