From Mad in Mexico: As Phyllis Chesler warned us, already in 1974, gender bias has accompanied psychiatric power throughout its history. Years later, in 2005, in the last commented edition of Women and Madness, the author insisted on the persistence of that bias, which even today, 50 years later, seems to remain unchanged. In that same space were placed authors such as Ussher, Caplan, Margot Pujal and many others. With their differences and nuances, all converge at the same point, gender problems and discomforts produce deep suffering. These sufferings leave marks on our bodies and in our behaviors. Faced with a situation of violence, lack of recognition, moral or sexual siege, we will inevitably have some difficulty falling asleep or, on the contrary, we will sleep too much; we will feel guilty or insecure for not having been able to respond as we would have liked; we will have little will to feed them or we will eat non-stop. The truth is that, in our “diagnostic culture”, all those behaviors and emotions will be translated as symptoms of some mental disorder typified in the DSM.
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