Maxine Harris
Autor de Women of the Asylum: Voices from Behind the Walls, 1840-1945
Sobre El Autor
A clinical psychologist and associate at Dartmouth College's Psychiatric Research Center, Maxine Harris is best-known for her groundbreaking book The Loss That is Forever: The Lifelong Impact of the Early Death of a Mother or Father. Based on interviews with scores of people, and her own experience mostrar más as a clinical psychologist, Harris provides readers with a basis for understanding the impact the early loss of a parent has on adult development. Some of Harris's other works include Women in the Asylum, a collection of first-person accounts by women who were in insane asylums; Sexual Abuse in the Lives of Women Diagnosed with Serious Mental Illness, which includes sections on assessment, treatment and policy; and Trauma Recovery and Empowerment, a clinical guide for working with women in groups. Besides writing books, Harris was also on the editorial board of the journal Violence Against Women. Published monthly by SAGE Publications, the journal is available on the Internet as well as through the mail. As co-director for Community Connections Mental Health Agency in Washington, D.C., Harris worked with homeless clients. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras de Maxine Harris
The Loss That is Forever: The Lifelong Impact of the Early Death of a Mother or Father (1995) 98 copias
Trauma Recovery and Empowerment: A Clinician's Guide for Working with Women in Groups (1998) 23 copias
Sukhavati [videorecording (DVD)] : a mythic journey with Joseph Campbell (2004) — Produced, Edited, Directed — 11 copias
Using Trauma Theory to Design Service Systems: New Directions for Mental Health Services, Number 89 (2001) 6 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Género
- female
- Lugares de residencia
- Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA
- Ocupaciones
- clinical psychologist
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Must read for any person who lost a parent when they were young.
I feel good reading this for an interesting reason - these women often seem to have little hope in anything other than that someone, someday, would read their words and know what they endured. The other comments on here are correct - the editors are definitely focused on affluent (and very literate) white women. I'd love to read an accompanying book of collected experiences of black, Native American, or other minority women. But the editors seem to have simply been looking to collect certain kinds of stories - not because of racism, just because that's what they were looking at. Very interesting, and some of the writings are really moving.… (más)
There is nothing like first hand accounts to bring the deplorable condition of the Insane Asylum in the mid 19th to early 20th centuries. How easy it was for a husband to get rid of an unwanted wife, just bring her to an Insane Asylum to be committed. And how hopeless the incarceration. Cruelty was rampant and only changed its instruments and intensity over time. This book is alarming in presenting an aspect of Women's Studies that is rarely expounded upon
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- Obras
- 12
- Miembros
- 335
- Popularidad
- #71,019
- Valoración
- 4.0
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- 4
- ISBNs
- 25
- Idiomas
- 1
(Plume, 1996, $13.95)