Main description:

This book examines sex and gender differences in the causes and expression of medical conditions, including mental health disorders.

Sex differences are variations attributable to individual reproductive organs and the XX or XY chromosomal complement. Gender differences are variations that result from biological sex as well as individual self-representation which include psychological, behavioural, and social consequences of an individual's perceived gender.

Gender is still a neglected field in psychopathology, and gender differences is often incorrectly used as a synonym of sex differences. A reconsideration of the definition of gender, as the term that subsumes masculinity and femininity, could shed some light on this misperception and could have an effect in the study of health and disease.

This second edition of Psychopathology clarifies the anthropological, cultural and social aspects of gender and their impact on mental health disorders. It focuses on gender perspective as a paradigm not only in psychopathology but also in mental health disorders. As such it promotes open mindedness in the definition and perception of symptoms, as well as assumptions about those symptoms, and raises awareness of mental health.

Contents:

I. INTRODUCTION

II. GENERAL ASPECTS

1. Women Mental Health all over the world: Socio-political aspects of gender discrimination and violence. Immigration and translational motherhood

2. Resilience: What is human resilience and why it matters? NEW

3. Intimate partner violence against women: impact on Mental Health NEW

4. Sexual violence: Effects on Women's Identity and Mental Health and Mental Health. NEW

5. Traumatic life events and high risk for Psychopathology

II. SEX AND GENDER AS A MULTIDIMENSIONAL CONCEPT

6. Gender: A multidimensional construct- Sex and Gender based analysis (SGBA)

7. Transgenderism NEW

8. Gender and Psychological differences

9. Self Identity and Gender differences

10.Psychosexual development and sexual dysfunctions

III GENDER AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY

11. Gender and Corporality, and Body Image

12. Body and Hysteria. Dissociated body

13. Dismorfophobia: From Neuroticism to Psychoticism

14. Eating Disorders

15. Desire and Submission

16. Psychopathology of Life Instinct

17. Addiction and gender differences.

18.Gender and Psychosis: Everything you always wanted to know about sex (and gender) in psychosis and were afraid to ask

IV PSYCHOPATHOLOGY RELATED TO HORMONAL ASPECTS.

19. Adolescent Depression

20. Childhood and adolescence first episode of psychosis

21. Premenstrual Experience

22. Mental Health and Therapeutical Abortion NEW

23. Pregnancy Depression from gender perspective

24.Postnatal Depression

25.Puerperal Psychosis

26.Menopause Changes and Challenge and Menopause Depression

V. GENDER IN PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS

27.Mood Disorders

28. Gender Differences in Unipolar versus Bipolar Depression. NEW

29. Anxiety Disorders

30.Postraumatic Stress Disorder

31. Gender and Fist Episode of Psychosis. A review

32. Schizophrenia

33. Gender differences in Bipolar Disorder

34. Mixed Forms in Bipolar Disorders and relation to Gender

35. Personality Disorders and Borderline Personality Spectrum Gender Differences

36. Somatomorphic and Factitious Disorders

37. Pathological Gambling: Clinical Gender differences

VI. ART, GENDER AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY

VII GENDER BIAS IN RESEARCH. HOW DOES IT AFFECT TO MENTAL HEALTH? NEW