Sexy But Psycho: How the Patriarchy Uses Women’s Trauma Against Them

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The inclusion of personal stories; they are weaved in very interestingly into the narrative (albeit sometimes quite repetitive). Statistics are great, but they dehumanise. This is not a topic you want to dehumanise. I gave it three stars not because it was mediocre book, but because it was both horrible and great, at the same time. Let’s to step by step.

That said, it's fairly obvious why this isn't an academic publication. There is a reference list at the end of the book and a few studies cited throughout, but not enough to buttress her arguments. There is no separate works cited or even an annotated bibliography. It’s true that many of the responses we’ve pathologised into symptoms of mental illness are actually natural and rational reactions to trauma and distress, and it’s true that diagnoses of these mental illnesses are, too often, used to undermine, discredit, discriminate against, and section those diagnosed with them - disproportionately, women.

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The Little Orange Book: learning about abuse from the voice of the child. OCLC 1054886898 . Retrieved 11 July 2020– via worldcat.org. Victim focused approaches and combating victim blaming for professionals". University of Birmingham. Dr Taylor, a feminist and Psychologist with a PhD in Forensic Psychology is a Senior Lecturer in Forensic and Criminal Psychology. A push to be more critical of mental health professionals; to trust yourself when it comes to your emotions. There are great experts in mental health, but just because one has a title of psychiatry doesn’t mean one’s part of the good ones.

The overall argument about the need to have a more trauma-informed approach, and that, in comparison to the medical diagnosis-prone approaches, it is more humanising, ethical, and effective. Diagnoses are shortcuts that might be neither useful, nor efficient. Medications aren’t cure-alls.Is psychiatry really just ‘patriarchy with a prescription pad’? When I started reading Sexy But Psycho I thought this was perhaps a bold claim but Dr Taylor is able, emphatically and decisively, to demonstrate that this is far more than a ‘claim’. It is a distressing, disturbing and uncomfortable read, but a very important and enlightening one nonetheless. On the one hand it might be seen as an alarming exposé and yet, is it anything more than a nudge to alert us to what many of us have known, or at least suspected, for quite some time?

Graffius, Catriona; Sun, The (1 June 2021). "Millionaire kills lover over sex video". news.com.au . Retrieved 9 January 2022. The overwhelming majority of psychiatrists and certainly GPs have no education to understand they are over-medicating women to levels suited to male bodies and physiological systems. Essentially, we’re still doping women in docility albeit in a different form to what Freud and co. advised for hysteria. An overfocus on sexual abuse. Yes, that’s a VERY important topic, but it leads one to simplify the plethora of stressors and traumas that women can experience. What about poverty? Childhood neglect? Early deaths of family members? There are so many possible traumas and this book could have really benefited from taking a more extensive look at them, rather than simply defaulting only and solely to sexual violence.Flood, Alison (24 April 2020). "Author of book about victim blaming bombarded with misogynist abuse". The Guardian . Retrieved 10 July 2020. Medical research has shown that antipsychotics cause a range of health conditions in children including significant weight gain, drowsiness and diabetes.