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

Lightwork

Medical “expertise” was used to justify limiting women’s roles in society, perpetuating a cycle of oppression that adversely affected mental well-being across generations. Lucy Burns documented the emotional suffering of fellow suffragettes who endured force-feeding and solitary confinement.

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

Mad in America

It gives us a way to evaluate success and failure, a structure for self-esteem. At the core of everything is the inescapable awareness that we are going to die, and that it could happen at any moment. Culture provides the framework for these goals, the values by which we measure ourselves and others. From fulfillment.