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Women’s Mental Health Care: A Historical Perspective & Progress

Lightwork

The pathologization of female behavior became a means of social control, discouraging women from seeking education, pursuing careers, or asserting their independence. The connection between advocating for women’s rights and raising awareness about mental health became clear through the stories of influential suffragettes.

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“All Real Living Is Meeting”: Brent Robbins on Love, Death, and the Possibilities of Psychology

Mad in America

She documents cases where medieval Europeans commissioned dissections not out of scientific curiosity but out of care for their families. You see this in modern medical education: Gross anatomy where students dissect cadaversis placed at the very beginning of medical school. Because it serves as a socialization process.