Mental Illness and Psychiatric Treatment Among Women

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12004292
AutoresWalter R Gove (Vanderbilt University, autor correspondente)
Ano1980
Volume4
Fascículo3
Páginas345-362
Data de publicação1980-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPsychology of Women Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0361-6843 • E-ISSN: 1471-6402
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1111/j.1471-6402.1980.tb01109.x
OpenAlexW2157082565
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas23
Referências citadas51

When mental illness is precisely defined as a functional disorder involving acute distress or disorganization (or both), women are consistently found to have higher rates of mental illness than men. This sex difference appears to be real and not an artifact of response bias, patient behavior, or clinician bias. The higher rates of mental illness among women can be linked to aspects of their societal role and particularly to aspects of the marital role. Therapists who treat women whose mental illness is in part a response to the characteristics of conventional sex roles have no treatment alternatives that are not in some way problematic. The treatment alternative chosen has, in the broadest sense, political implications for the society at large

Distress · Mental distress · Mental health · Mental illness · Psychiatry · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Clinical Psychology · Mental Health Treatment and Access · Psychology