DSM-5 and beyond: A critical feminist engagement with psychodiagnosis

Marecek, Jeanne; Gavey, Nicola

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“…The basic premises of feminist psychology are that the personal is political (Hanish, 1970); that psychological suffering is linked to social, economic and political contexts; and that there is no lasting individual change without social change (Evans et al, 2005;Marecek & Gavey, 2013). Feminist-informed psychological counselling and research strategies emerged from the social change movements of the 1960s (Evans et al, 2005).…”

Section: Feminisms and Psychologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Feminist psychologists and researchers have cited numerous reasons for eschewing traditional psychological assessment and diagnostic procedures (Lafrance & McKenzie-Mohr, 2013;Marecek & Gavey, 2013;Swartz, 2013), the most fundamental of which will briefly be summarised here.…”

Section: A Feminist Critique Of Psychiatric Diagnosesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Feminist psychologists thus argue that much of what is passed off as scientific knowledge is merely the subjective beliefs of a masculine society, packaged and delivered as objective truth (Marecek & Gavey, 2013). While it is not within the scope of this thesis to fully investigate the historical views on women, their reproductive cycles and psychological illnesses, it is important to remain aware of the fact that these ideas have inserted themselves into modern-day doctrine (Swartz, 2013;Ussher, 2013).…”

Section: A Feminist Critique Of Psychiatric Diagnosesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Ussher reminds us that depression remains "very much a western cultural concept, as there is no word for 'depression' in many non-western cultures" and that Even in mainstream literature, where the concept of depression is uncritically accepted, it has been pointed out that the term itself is problematic, in that it can refer to a mood, a symptom, or a disease, and the relationship between these three is vague (Rapmund, 1999 While there may not be a definitional consensus on the construct of depression, there is general agreement that the term inevitably carries clinical connotations (Lewis, 1996). As pointed out by Marecek and Gavey (2013), the DSM has employed a medical metaphor to organise the meanings of psychological suffering since 1980.…”

Section: A Critical Consideration Of the Concept "Depression" And Thementioning

confidence: 99%

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A Feminist Phenomenological Description of Depression in Low-income South African Women

Dukas¹

2016

Int J Womens Health Wellness

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Section: Feminisms and Psychologymentioning

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Section: A Feminist Critique Of Psychiatric Diagnosesmentioning

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Dukas¹

2016

Int J Womens Health Wellness

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“…Many studies of women and madness already demonstrate how patriarchy has reinterpreted women's anger, suffering, and oppression into signs of mental pathology [e.g., Ref. (42)] and feminists have shown how diagnoses may be suffused with the dominant ideologies of their time and place and used to regulate behavior (43). Documentation of the relation between trauma/abuse and voice-hearing is now extensive [e.g., Ref.…”

Section: Women and Voice-hearing After The Birth Of Psychiatrymentioning

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Affective Politics, Debility and Hearing Voices: Towards a Feminist Politics of Ordinary Suffering

Blackman¹

2015

Feminist Review

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This paper explores the experiences of women who "hear voices" (auditory verbal hallucinations). We begin by examining historical understandings of women hearing voices, showing these have been driven by androcentric theories of how women's bodies functioned leading to women being viewed as requiring their voices be interpreted by men. We show the twentieth century was associated with recognition that the mental violation of women's minds (represented by some voice-hearing) was often a consequence of the physical violation of women's bodies. We next report the results of a qualitative study into voice-hearing women's experiences (n = 8). This found similarities between women's relationships with their voices and their relationships with others and the wider social context. Finally, we present results from a quantitative study comparing voice-hearing in women (n = 65) and men (n = 132) in a psychiatric setting. Women were more likely than men to have certain forms of voice-hearing (voices conversing) and to have antecedent events of trauma, physical illness, and relationship problems. Voices identified as female may have more positive affect than male voices. We conclude that women voice-hearers have and continue to face specific challenges necessitating research and activism, and hope this paper will act as a stimulus to such work.

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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders(DSM), Feminist Critiques of

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Cosgrove

2016

The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies

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Feminists have contributed to a critical analysis of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) since it was first published by the American Psychiatric Association in 1952. These analyses have focused on the philosophical and political dimensions of the manual's underlying theory and approach as well as the ways in which many disorders reinforce gender, class, and race bias. Major areas of criticism include the lack of attention to the sociopolitical context of emotional distress, DSM‐5's ethnocentric framework, and the widening of diagnostic boundaries.

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DSM-5 and beyond: A critical feminist engagement with psychodiagnosis

Cited by 45 publications

References 12 publications

A Feminist Phenomenological Description of Depression in Low-income South African Women

A Feminist Phenomenological Description of Depression in Low-income South African Women

Affective Politics, Debility and Hearing Voices: Towards a Feminist Politics of Ordinary Suffering

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders(DSM), Feminist Critiques of

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