Couching Resistance: Women, Film, and Psychoanalytic Psychiatry

by Janet Walker

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In Couching Resistance, Janet Walker examines professional and popular literature published between World War II and the mid-1960's to develop a picture of psychiatry's ambivalent response to women patients. This ambivalence, Walker argues, is also evident in the profusion of Hollywood films form the same period on the subject of psychiatry and women. Even though in many cases men and women made up an equal number of patients,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0816622337

ISBN13:9780816622337

Release Date:February 1993

Publisher:University of Minnesota Press

Length:240 Pages

Weight:0.45 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"

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