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Women, psychiatry and madness

(ART)

Jan van Bommel

8 points + 2 hours per week + Second semester + Clayton

Synopsis: A socio-historical analysis of the institutionalisation of madness and the current practice of de-institutionalisation. Sociological, medical and feminist theories of femininity and madness. How the institution of psychiatry diagnoses as madness those aspects of women0s experience it intends to invalidate and then cure. Interpretations of psychoanalysis and female subjectivity (Freudian, Lacanian, French feminist).

Assessment: Two essays (3000 words each): 50% each