Women and Mental Illness: A Cultural Systems Perspective
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چکیده
We live in a culture that, for many historical and economic reasons, pathologizes many of the normal processes and responses of human growth and development— especially for women. The cultural reasons for this are deeply embedded in a 6,000 year-old process of systematic overrun of indigenous peoples by a culture based on exploitative, empire-building patriarchal values. Daniel Quinn, in his award-winning novel, Ishmael, calls these “Taker” values. People operating from these values assume that any object is for the taking and any person who is perceived as “other” (different skin color, different language, different clothes, different skills) is an object.
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