Women and Mental Disorders

Lundberg-Love (psychology, U. of Texas at Tyler) et al. offer a four-volume set to psychotherapists, counselors, attorneys, and health professionals who work with women that contains 41 essays on women and mental health disorders that focus on valuing and making women central to mental health research and treatment. Taking a multicultural approach and addressing biases due to a focus on men in the field, ethnocentrism, and heterosexism, psychologists from the US examine women's unique life experiences in relation to poverty, multiple roles, feminist identity, disability, reproduction, and spirituality. They also expore the roots of abuse, crime, and sexual victimization, including rape, sexual abuse, verbal sexual coercion in dating, intimate partner violence, sexism, and sexual orientation hate crimes. Coverage includes common mental disorders, treatments, and research, including bulimia, personality disorders, cultural considerations, depression, international migration experiences, anxiety, agoraphobia, cognitive disorders, teenage cutting, female sexual dysfunction, substance abuse, and behavioral disorders in girls. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Paula K. Lundberg-Love, PhD, is professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Tyler.

Kevin L. Nadal, PhD, is assistant professor of psychology and mental health counseling at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Michele A. Paludi is president of Human Resources Management Solutions and participating faculty at Union Graduate College, Schenectady, NY.