Journal articles: 'Mentally ill women, fiction'

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Chatterjee, Rajni, and Uzma Hashim. "Rehabilitation of mentally ill women." Indian Journal of Psychiatry 57, no. 6 (2015): 345. http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.161503.

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May, Barbara A., Dmitriy Rakhlin, Anita Katz, and Barbara J. Limandri. "Are Abused Women Mentally ill?" Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services 41, no. 2 (February 2003): 21–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.3928/0279-3695-20030201-08.

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LEWINE, RICHARD. "Treating Chronically Mentally Ill Women." American Journal of Psychiatry 146, no. 3 (March 1989): 394—a—395. http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.3.394-a.

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Feehan, Catherine J. "Hypertrichosis in mentally ill women." British Journal of Psychiatry 161, no. 2 (August 1992): 280. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.161.2.280a.

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Harris, Maxine, and Leona L. Bachrach. "Perspectives on Homeless Mentally Ill Women." Psychiatric Services 41, no. 3 (March 1990): 253–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/ps.41.3.253.

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MAHONEY, DIANA. "Mammography Rates ‘Abysmal’ Among Mentally Ill Women." Internal Medicine News 38, no. 14 (July 2005): 34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1097-8690(05)71158-6.

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MAHONEY, DIANA. "Mammography Rates ‘Abysmal’ Among Mentally Ill Women." Family Practice News 35, no. 14 (July 2005): 35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0300-7073(05)71046-x.

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MAHONEY, DIANA. "Mammography Rates ‘Abysmal’ Among Mentally Ill Women." Clinical Psychiatry News 33, no. 7 (July 2005): 58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0270-6644(05)70544-0.

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BRUNK, DOUG. "Severely Mentally Ill Women Often Impoverished, Vulnerable." Clinical Psychiatry News 34, no. 1 (January 2006): 23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0270-6644(06)71103-1.

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Miller, Laura J. "Comprehensive care of pregnant mentally ill women." Journal of Mental Health Administration 19, no. 2 (June 1992): 170–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02521317.

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Nikolaevskaya, A. O., N. A. Tyuvina, V. D. Morozova, and E. P. Kesler. "Psychosomatic correlations in mentally ill and mentally healthy women with infertility." Neurology, Neuropsychiatry, Psychosomatics 15, no. 4 (August 15, 2023): 45–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.14412/20742711-2023-4-45-52.

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The issue of the influence of women's mental state on their reproductive function has not been adequately addressed and requires further research.Objective: a comparative evaluation of individual indicators of menstrual and reproductive function in mentally healthy and mentally ill women with infertility.Material and methods. We studied 348 women aged 21 to 40 years with primary and secondary infertility, 120 of whom had been treated for a mental disorder in a psychiatric hospital prior to the present study. The patients' condition was assessed by a clinical method using a specially designed questionnaire card.Results. Reproductive function of patients in the studied groups differed significantly in several indicators. Mentally ill women with primary infertility are characterized by the following features: later onset of menstruation, scanty or heavy menstrual flow (p<0.05), irregularity or absence of menstruation during the period of exacerbation of the disease, insufficient emotional response to menarche (p<0.05), irregularity of sexual life and dissatisfaction with it (p<0.01). Spontaneous miscarriages and stillbirth occurred more frequently in mentally ill women, especially in women with endogenous disorders (schizophrenia, affective disorders), while abortions and gynecological surgeries were more frequent in mentally healthy women (p<0.001). Predictors of infertility on the part of mental health are the early onset and chronic course of a mental disorder, the severity and duration of an exacerbation of the illness, brief and incomplete remissions, the development of personality changes or a defect (schizophrenic) as a result of a mental illness.Conclusion. Menstrual and reproductive functions of women depend on their mental state. In women with mental disorders, menstrual dysfunction together with psychopathological symptoms of illness (decrease in libido, communication, emotional numbness), decrease in social and family adaptation leads to impairment of reproductive function.

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K.J, Agi. "GENDER DISPARITIES IN THE TREATMENT AND CARE OF MENTALLY ILL WOMEN-A LEGAL PERSPECTIVE." International Journal of Advanced Research 11, no. 04 (April 30, 2023): 1564–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/ijar01/16825.

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The Indian Constitution guarantees all fundamental rights to mentally ill people. Gender is a significant factor when a woman develops a mental illness, the necessary assistance is sometimes tardily sought. Although laws exist to safeguard the rights of mentally ill women receiving institutionalised care in India, execution is still a pipe dream. Women who are institutionalised with mental illnesses might experience change in their life and see improvements in their mental health with coordinated efforts at the social, political, economic, and legal levels. This research focuses on the issues mentally ill women encounter when receiving treatment and care within a Mental Health Care Centre.

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Davidson, Sandra, Fiona Judd, Damien Jolley, Barbara Hocking, Sandra Thompson, and Brendan Hyland. "Risk Factors for HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C Among the Chronic Mentally Ill." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 35, no. 2 (April 2001): 203–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1440-1614.2001.00867.x.

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Objective: The objective of this study was to document the prevalence of risk factors for HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C among people with chronic mental illness treated in a community setting. Method: 234 patients attending four community mental health clinics in the North-western Health Care Network in Melbourne, Australia, completed an interviewer-administered questionnaire which covered demographics, risk behaviour and psychiatric diagnosis. Results: The sample was 58% male, and 79% of the sample had a primary diagnosis of schizophrenia. Forty-three per cent of mentally ill men and 51% of mentally ill women in the survey had been sexually active in the 12 months preceding the survey. One-fifth of mentally ill men and 57% of mentally ill women who had sex with casual partners never used condoms. People with mental illness were eight times more likely than the general population to have ever injected illicit drugs and the mentally ill had a lifetime prevalence of sharing needles of 7.4%. Conclusions: The prevalence of risk behaviours among the study group indicate that people with chronic mental illness should be regarded as a high-risk group for HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C. It is essential that adequate resources and strategies are targeted to the mentally ill as they are for other high-risk groups.

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Baldwin, Dana. "The Subsistence Adaptation of Homeless Mentally Ill Women." Human Organization 57, no. 2 (June 1, 1998): 190–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.17730/humo.57.2.q440k74m057nnx66.

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This paper explores the day-to-day adaptation of mentally ill women to the rigors of homelessness. The research on which it is based is unique in having collected extensive ethnographic data on the subsistence adaptation of a small yet heterogeneous sample of homeless mentally ill women over the course of more than three years. The subsistence adaptations of these women in a number of areas are described; these include shelter, food, clothing, hygiene, income and money management, safety and victimization, health and health care, social support, and social service utilization. The role of severe mental illness and the long-term effects of homelessness are also examined. Study participants employed a wide variety of strategies in dealing with their living environments, strategies which were at times both functional and adaptive and at times maladaptive and harmful. Homeless mentally ill women are shown to be a heterogeneous group whose lives are marked by recurring and unpredictable change, as are their adaptations to these changes.

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Oyebode, Femi. "Fictional narrative and psychiatry." Advances in Psychiatric Treatment 10, no. 2 (March 2004): 140–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/apt.10.2.140.

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This article addresses how mental illness and psychiatry are dealt with in fictional narrative. The starting point is Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre. The characterisation of madness in that novel provides the basis for exploring how the physical and psychological differences of mentally ill people are portrayed, and how violence and the institutional care of people with mental illnesses are depicted. It is also argued that the fact that in Jane Eyre, Bertha Mason, the madwoman in the attic, is rendered voiceless is not accidental but emblematic of the depiction of mentally ill people in fiction. A number of novels are used to illustrate these issues.

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Bågedahl-Strindlund, M., and G. Undén. "Mentally Ill Mothers and Their Children." Scandinavian Journal of Social Medicine 16, no. 1 (March 1988): 53–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/140349488801600109.

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177 cases of parapartum mental illness and 173 matched obstetric controls were studied retrospectively from the perspective of the social welfare services (SWS). Data covering five years before the index partus until five to seven years thereafter, were studied. Parapartum mentally ill women were known to the SWS to a much greater extent (75%) than their matched controls (33%). They also presented more severe environmental problems than their matched controls. Within the index sample the largest number of adverse factors known to the SWS was found in the addicts and NTI (neuroses and temporary insufficiencies) groups. The dysfunction in the families appeared to be constant throughout the observation period. A large proportion of the index children (32%) had been placed in foster care or adopted. When the index women had applied to the SWS during the first postpartum year the social workers were informed of the fact that she had contacted a psychiatric department in 8 out of 10 cases. However, only in half of these cases had regular collaboration taken place. Collaboration was far more frequent when the mother suffered from severe mental illness than when she was suffering from a less severe mental disturbance.

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Tyuvina, Nina A., Angelina O. Nikolayevskaya, Vera V. Balabanova, and Kaleriia N. Ilchenko. "Comparative characteristics of reproductive function in mentally healthy and mentally ill women with infertility." Gynecology 25, no. 2 (July 14, 2023): 195–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.26442/20795696.2023.2.201838.

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Background. Issues of the relationship and interaction of menstrual and reproductive function and the mental state of women are not sufficiently studied and need additional research. Aim. To conduct a comparative assessment of individual indicators of reproductive function in mentally healthy and mentally ill women with infertility. Materials and methods. Of the 348 women with primary and secondary infertility aged 21 to 40 included in the study, 120 had been treated for a psychiatric disorder in a psychiatric hospital before this study. Patients were clinically evaluated using a specially designed questionnaire card and subsequent statistical processing of the results obtained. Results. The menstrual-generative function of patients in the study groups significantly differed in several indicators. Mentally ill women with primary infertility were characterized by a later age of menarche, menstruation irregularity or absence during the disease exacerbation, scanty menstruations or heavy menstrual bleeding, inadequate emotional response to menarche, and irregularity and dissatisfaction with sexual life. Spontaneous miscarriages and stillbirths were more common in mentally ill women, especially those with endogenous diseases (schizophrenia, affective disorders), and abortions and gynecological operations were more common in mentally healthy women. Predictors of infertility related to mental health were early onset and chronic course of mental disorder, severity and duration of the disease exacerbations, short and incomplete remissions, and personality changes or a defect (schizophrenic) due to mental illness. Conclusion. Menstrual and reproductive functions of women depend on their mental state. In women with mental conditions, menstrual function disorders, along with psychopathological symptoms of diseases (a decrease in sexual vigor, communication, anesthesia of feelings), and decreased social and family adaptation, lead to reproductive function disorders. Improving a woman's mental state can contribute to the recovery of her reproductive function.

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Trajanovic, L., O. Skakic, and N. Ilic. "FC21-03 - Health-related quality of life of women with and without a mentally ill family member." European Psychiatry 26, S2 (March 2011): 1929. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0924-9338(11)73633-1.

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IntroductionWomen bear most of the burden in taking care of a chronically ill family member, thus exposing their own health and quality of life to risk. It is consider that mental health is the most vulnerable and most frequently affected health domain.ObjectiveThe purpose of this study was to examine the health-related quality of life (HR-QOL) in women who have and have not a mentally ill adult for a family member.MethodMOS Short Form-36 Health Survey (SF-36) questionnaire was used in this study. A total of 118 women were questioned, 54 out of which were taking care of a schizophrenic adult family member, whereas 64 had families with no mentally ill members. The two groups were matched according to age and education level.ResultsWomen with a mentally ill family member had lower scores in all quality of life domains, with the lowest scores in vitality (VT = 48,1), mental health (MH = 51,9), role emotional (RE = 53,1) and general health (GH = 53,5). Exactly the same health dimensions were estimated as the worst by women with no mentally ill family member (VT = 50,1; MH = 57,5; RE = 57,9; GH = 61). Statistically significant difference was observed only in the general health (p < 0.05).ConclusionWomen who are taking care of a chronically mentally ill family member are not so worried about the deterioration of their own mental health, as much as they are about their general state of health. Therefore it is necessary to put an accent on this subject as well, in creating future caregivers health programs.

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Anonymous. "Chronically Mentally Ill Women Show High Rate of Abuse." Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services 31, no. 10 (October 1993): 45. http://dx.doi.org/10.3928/0279-3695-19931001-17.

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Rao, P. Nalini. "Rehabilitation of the Wandering Seriously Mentally Ill (WSMI) Women." Social Work in Health Care 39, no. 1-2 (January 27, 2005): 49–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j010v39n01_05.

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Friedman, Susan Hatters, Martha Sajatovic, Isabel N. Schuermeyer, Roknedin Safavi, Robert W. Hays, Jane West, Rosalinda V. Ignacio, and Frederic C. Blow. "Menopause-Related Quality of Life in Chronically Mentally ILL Women." International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine 35, no. 3 (September 2005): 259–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/br03-8gyd-5l9j-lu17.

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Objective: Menopause is an important life event that has not yet been well characterized among women with severe mental illness. Our goal was to evaluate menopause-related quality of life among severely mentally ill women. Method: We conducted a cross-sectional assessment of perimenopausal and postmenopausal women, ages 45–55, diagnosed with schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, or major depression, who were receiving inpatient or outpatient psychiatric care. Women were compared regarding menopausal symptoms and quality of life using the Menopause Specific Quality of Life Scale (MENQOL). Results: Women with severe mental illnesses who were peri- and post-menopausal experienced considerable vasomotor, physical, sexual, and psychosocial symptoms related to menopause. On seven of 29 MENQOL items, women with major depression reported problems significantly more often than women with other serious mental illnesses. Conclusions: This preliminary study indicates that psychiatrists and other physicians should consider the frequency and overlap of menopausal and psychiatric symptoms among women with serious mental illness in this age group.

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Parthasarathy, Malavika. "Integrating Mental Health Perspectives into the Legal Discourse on Reproductive Justice in India." Journal of National Law University Delhi 6, no. 1 (June 2019): 21–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2277401719870643.

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The reproductive justice framework envisions a world where all women, including those situated at the intersection of multiple structures of oppression such as class, caste, sexual orientation, disability and mental health, are able to exercise their right to decisional and reproductive autonomy. S. 3(4)(a) of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971, provides that an abortion cannot be performed on a mentally ill woman without the consent of her guardian. I analyse the Indian Supreme Court’s decision in Suchita Srivastava v. Chandigarh Administration [(2009) 9 SCC 1] in light of contemporary legal developments in the field of disability law and mental health law. The first argument that I make in this paper is that the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016, covers persons with mental illness, with the rights in the Act applicable to those with mental illness as well. The second argument rests on the Mental Healthcare Act, 2017, which recognizes the right to privacy and dignity of mentally ill persons, including their capacity to make decisions affecting healthcare. I argue that the judgment, while path-breaking in its recognition of the reproductive rights of disabled women, is inimical to the rights of mentally ill women, perpetuating dangerous stereotypes about their ability to exercise choices, and dehumanizing them. It is imperative for the reproductive justice framework to inform legal discourse and judicial decision-making, to fully acknowledge the right to self-determination and bodily integrity of mentally ill persons.

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Langum, Virginia. "Prairie Madness: Mental Illness and Norwegian Immigration to North America in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries." Literature and Medicine 41, no. 1 (March 2023): 207–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lm.2023.a911451.

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Abstract: In the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, there was widespread concern about the fate of immigrants to the United States. One area of particular concern was mentally ill immigrants, as illustrated in contemporaneous screening procedures, asylum reports, government commissions, popular media, fiction, and scientific studies. This article examines the depiction of one mentally ill immigrant in O. E. Rølvaag's novel Giants in the Earth within the context of these discussions. The novel, published originally in two parts in 1924 and 1925 in Norwegian, was translated in collaboration with the author into English in 1927. While many explanations were posited for rates of mental illness among immigrants to North America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Rølvaag presents a more nuanced view which accounts for mental responses to change of climate, environment, and cultural loss.

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Lord, Elaine A. "The Challenges of Mentally Ill Female Offenders in Prison." Criminal Justice and Behavior 35, no. 8 (August 2008): 928–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0093854808318660.

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An increasing number of women offenders arrive in prison with serious mental health problems. Such inmates tend to experience difficulties negotiating the prison environment. They create all sorts of predicaments for other prisoners and instigate crisis situations that present pressing challenges to members of the staff. One prevalent form of symptomatic behavior in women's prisons is that of self-injury, which carries the risk of death or serious impairment. Self-harm should not be the sort of behavior that invites disciplinary dispositions. Mentally ill women also become involved in disproportionate serious rule breaking, including assaultive acts, leading to inappropriate placement in segregation cells, where their difficulties are apt to become exacerbated. To address this problem, special settings can be created to accommodate some chronically disturbed women, but these serve to merely ameliorate a seemingly insoluble dilemma.

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Stewart, D. E. "Psychiatric Admission of Mentally Ill Mothers with their Infants." Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 34, no. 1 (February 1989): 34–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/070674378903400109.

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There is a greatly increased risk of a woman developing a psychiatric illness requiring hospital admission during the early postpartum period. Admission of the mother has usually meant separating her from her infant at a time when bonding and attachment are developing. Nearly 40 years ago English psychiatrists began admitting infants with their mentally ill mothers, and although the theoretical basis for this is sound, there are few systematic studies of the practical problems encountered, or the outcomes. This paper compares a group of 32 psychiatrically ill postpartum women who were admitted to a Canadian general hospital psychiatric unit with their infants to a group of 26 psychiatrically ill postpartum women hospitalized on the same unit who refused admission of their infants. The women admitted with their infants were more likely to be older, living with the infants' father, in a stable residence and job, in hospital for a longer time, and caring for their babies at 2 year follow-up in contrast to the women who were admitted without their infants. The two groups were diagnostically different with joint admission mothers likely to suffer from an affective psychotic illness, while the mothers without infants were more likely to suffer from personality disorder or substance abuse. The effects of mother-infant admission and some of the practical problems encountered are discussed.

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Bachrach, Leona L. "Chronic Mentally Ill Women: Emergence and Legitimation of Program Issues." Psychiatric Services 36, no. 10 (October 1985): 1063–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.10.1063.

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Dail, Paula W., and Ronald J. Koshes. "Treatment Issues and Treatment Configurations for Mentally Ill Homeless Women." Social Work in Health Care 17, no. 4 (November 30, 1992): 27–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j010v17n04_02.

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Heyding, Robert K. "Providing medical care to mentally ill women in the community." Community Mental Health Journal 26, no. 4 (August 1990): 373–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00752727.

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Nikolaevskaya, A. O., N. A. Tyuvina, and V. V. Balabanova. "The influence of the mental state of women with infertility on their reproductive status." Neurology, Neuropsychiatry, Psychosomatics 16, no. 3 (June 22, 2024): 64–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.14412/2074-2711-2024-3-64-71.

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Mutual influence between women's mental health and their reproductive capacity are not clearly understood. In particular, psychogenic factors and mental disorders affect sexual, menstrual and reproductive functions, which in turn can lead to infertility. Improving the mental state of women, on the other hand, helps to restore reproductive function.Objective: to develop dynamic ideas about the reproductive status of mentally ill and mentally healthy women with infertility based on the results of the follow-up.Material and methods. The study included 348 patients with infertility over a period of 2 years, 228 were mentally healthy women and 120 women with mental disorders. All women were consulted by a gynecologist, women with mental disorders by a psychiatrists, and treatment of existing disorders was carried out.Results. Mentally healthy women have a significantly higher number of pregnancies, which is mainly due to the in vitro fertilization procedure. They have a rational approach to pregnancy planning, are characterized by a high referral rate to obstetricians and gynecologists and undergo a large number of gynecological procedures to overcome infertility. Pregnancy occurs spontaneously in mentally ill patients and is associated with an improvement in mental state and normalization of menstrual, sexual and therefore reproductive function, but is characterized by a complicated course (fetal growth retardation, miscarriage, intrauterine infection of the fetus, oedema, hypertension, lipid metabolism disorders, gestational diabetes mellitus, placental disorders) and fewer births.Conclusion. The reproductive function of women depends on their mental state. In women with mental disorders, disturbances of menstrual and sexual function and family adaptation lead to infertility. Improving the mental state contributes to the restoration of reproductive function and spontaneous pregnancy.

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Witkoś, Joanna, Agnieszka Fusińska-Korpik, Magdalena Hartman-Petrycka, and Agnieszka Nowak. "An assessment of sensory sensitivity in women suffering from depression using transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation." PeerJ 10 (May 9, 2022): e13373. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13373.

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Background Perception is the process or result of the process arising from the mental interpretation of the phenomena occurring, therefore it depends not only on physiology, but is also psychologically and socially conditioned. The aim of this study was to assess if there is a difference in the sensory sensitivity to an electrical stimulus in women suffering from depression and what the hedonic rating is of the lived experience of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation. Methods The depression group: 44 women, who were inpatients treated for depression at the Psychiatric Ward in the Clinical Hospital, and the control group: 41 women, matched by the age, height and weight, with no mental illness. Measures: threshold for sensing current, type of sensation evoked, hedonic rating. Results Median sensing threshold of electric current (depression vs. control: 7.75 mA vs. 8.35 mA; no significant), type of sensation evoked (depression vs. control: tingling 90.9% vs. 92.7%, no significant), hedonic rating (depression vs. control: unpleasant 11.4% vs. 2.4%; p = 0.003), hedonic rating (mildly ill vs. moderately ill vs. markedly ill: unpleasant 5.3% vs. 6.3% vs. 33.3%; p = 0.066). Conclusions Women suffering from depression exhibit a similar threshold of sensitivity to an electrical stimulus as mentally healthy women, however the hedonic rating of the stimulus acting on the skin in the group of clinically depressed women was more negative than in the mentally healthy subjects. The stimulus was described as ‘unpleasant’ for many of the mentally unhealthy women. The most negative sensations related to the electrical stimulus were experienced by women with the highest severity of mental illness according to The Clinical Global Impression - Severity Scale.

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Randolph, Mary E., Steven D. Pinkerton, Anton M. Somlai, Jeffrey A. Kelly, Timothy L. McAuliffe, Richard H. Gibson, and Kristin Hackl. "Seriously Mentally Ill Women’s Safer Sex Behaviors and the Theory of Reasoned Action." Health Education & Behavior 36, no. 5 (May 20, 2009): 948–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1090198108324597.

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Seriously mentally ill women at risk for HIV infection ( n = 96) participated in structured interviews assessing sexual and substance-use behavior over a 3-month period. The majority of the women (63.5%) did not use condoms. Consistent with the theory of reasoned action, attitudes toward condom use and perceived social norms about safer sex were associated with safer sex intentions. Supplementing variables from the theory of reasoned action with safer sex self-efficacy explained additional variance in safer sex intentions. Greater safer sex intentions were related to both greater condom use and less frequent unprotected intercourse. In addition, less frequent sex after drug use and a less fatalistic outlook were associated with less frequent unprotected intercourse. Life circumstances specific to this population are particularly important to examine to improve the effectiveness of risk reduction interventions for seriously mentally ill women.

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d'Orbán, P. T. "Psychiatric aspects of contempt of court among women." Psychological Medicine 15, no. 3 (August 1985): 597–607. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033291700031457.

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SynopsisThe case histories of 72 women admitted to prison for contempt of court in 1979–83 were reviewed. The sample included 45% of all women imprisoned for contempt in England and Wales over the 5-year period. The contemnors were significantly older than other sentenced prisoners, one third were foreign born and 37–5% were suffering from psychiatric disorder. Two thirds of the mentally disordered group had a paranoid disorder, litigiousness was a prominent feature of their illness, and 52% committed contempt in the context of a matrimonial dispute or a dispute with neighbours. Recent legislation may help to prevent the imprisonment of mentally ill contemnors.

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Bharadwaj, Yatheesh, and Sateesh R. Koujalgi. "Exploring the Current Status of the Rehabilitation and Welfare Programs for Women with Severe Mental Illness." Journal Transnational Universal Studies 2, no. 3 (April 25, 2024): 189–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.58631/jtus.v2i3.88.

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Abstract: Mental illness is a pervasive public health concern affecting a significant portion of the global population, with women facing distinct challenges due to gender disparities and societal factors. This paper explores the specific hurdles encountered by mentally ill women, particularly in developing countries like India, where misconceptions, legal vulnerabilities, and lack of support programs exacerbate their vulnerability. Homelessness further compounds these challenges, with a substantial proportion of homeless individuals grappling with mental health disorders. Efforts to address these issues include government initiatives to establish specialized wards and rehabilitation homes for mentally ill homeless women, alongside welfare programs aimed at providing financial assistance and job opportunities. However, gaps persist in the availability and utilization of rehabilitation services, particularly for women. By prioritizing mental health literacy, reducing stigma, and integrating gender-responsive strategies into policies and programs, we can strive towards a future where mental health is prioritized, and all individuals, regardless of gender, have the opportunity to thrive.

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Avery, Lisa. "A Feminist Perspective on Group Work with Severely Mentally Ill Women." Women & Therapy 21, no. 4 (November 24, 1998): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j015v21n04_01.

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Vaisman, Diana Cantini, and Tomer Einat. "Mental Health Outcomes for Female Inmates without a Mental Disorder: Imprisonment and Post-release Effects of Confinement with Women with a Mental Illness." Prison Journal 101, no. 3 (April 19, 2021): 306–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00328855211010412.

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This study explores the well-being of women offenders without mental disorders during imprisonment and reentry after having been confined with mentally ill female inmates. We found that this joint confinement causes great distress to the mentally stable female inmates, harming both their mental, physical, and emotional condition and their reentry process and rehabilitation. Our findings led us to conclude that women prisoners should be separated from those with mental disorders or be offered a wide range of psychological and emotional coping tools as well as variety of rehabilitative treatment programs.

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Israelyan, Tat'yana. "Identification of the Phenomenon of Cognitive Polyphasia about Mental Illness Using the Projective Technique «Bubbles»." Scientific Research and Development. Socio-Humanitarian Research and Technology 11, no. 3 (October 13, 2022): 20–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/2306-1731-2022-11-3-20-25.

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The article discusses the results of the application of the projective technique "Bubbles" in the study of social representations of mental illness. The purpose of the study: to identify multidirectional social perceptions of mental illness. Research hypothesis: respondents' social perceptions of mental illness are characterized by duality. The sample consisted of Muslims – N = 111 (men – 53, women – 58 people) and Orthodox Christians – N = 114 (men – 49 people, women – 65 people), non–believers – N=113 (men – 76 people, women - 37 people), aged 18-23, 40-45, 60-65 years old, living in Moscow. Used: the author's questionnaire, which included 29 statements, the "Bubbles" technique. It was found that in both groups of respondents, the core of the JV about the mentally ill contains elements that demonstrate a positive orientation. The use of the "Bubbles" projective technique revealed the predominant negative nature of the perception of mentally ill people in three groups of respondents (the least negative perception in the group of respondents of Muslims (p<0.07). Respondents of the studied groups aged 18-23 years demonstrate the most positive representation of a mentally ill person than respondents aged 60-65 years (p<0.08). Thus, the results obtained with the help of a quantitative survey are in contradiction with the results of the qualitative method, thereby revealing the coexistence of SPS of different content, and therefore, allowing us to assert the phenomenon of cognitive polyphasia.

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Oates, Margaret. "Risk and childbirth in psychiatry." Advances in Psychiatric Treatment 1, no. 5 (May 1995): 146–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/apt.1.5.146.

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The relationship between childbirth and serious mental illness has been known since the time of Ancient Greece. It was first described in the psychiatric literature by Esquirol and later by his pupil Marcé in 1857. A substantial number of women become mentally ill, often for the first time, following childbirth. There are few events associated with such a measurable and predictable risk to mental health as childbirth, with its nine months warning. Despite this, there is little awareness amongst general psychiatrists of the predictable and manageable risk that faces many of their female patients should they become pregnant, nor of the risks that mentally ill mothers may pose for their children.

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Epstein, Maram. "Zaisheng yuan and the Writing of Women's Culture." Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture 10, no. 1 (April 1, 2023): 169–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/23290048-10362431.

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Abstract This article focuses on Zaisheng yuan as an intertextual work of creative fiction that draws from male-authored xiaoshuo fiction as well as earlier literary tanci novels. This case study discusses Zaisheng yuan as a key text in an affective archive of narrative works written by women that provides insights into how elite women mentally negotiated the social and ideological expectations that informed their lives. In addition to looking at how women authors rewrote the conventions associated with scholar-beauty romances, the chastity cult, and the gendered symbols associated with proper order, this article discusses tanci novels as a unique outlet for women's explorations of autonomous will (zhi 志) and imaginings of emotional justice.

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Moshe, Keren Dagan, and Tomer Einat. "Anaconda, Jet Fuel, White Robes, and Miaow Miaow: The Argot of Women Prisoners." Prison Journal 99, no. 6 (September 20, 2019): 683–705. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0032885519877380.

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This qualitative study based on research conducted in a prison facility for women in Israel aims to establish the existence of an argot among women prisoners and to analyze how it reflects their subculture. This research found that the argot focuses on seven different aspects of prison life: same-sex sexual relations, loyalty, prisoner status, drugs, relations between mentally stable prisoners and mentally ill prisoners, attitudes toward the prison staff, and threats and violence. The argot concerning gender-oriented distresses was found the most common, and the authors concluded that this aspect is the most stressful and threatening in the prisoner subculture.

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Coverdale, John H., Timothy L. Bayer, Laurence B. McCullough, and Frank A. Chervenak. "Respecting the Autonomy of Chronic Mentally Ill Women in Decisions About Contraception." Psychiatric Services 44, no. 7 (July 1993): 671–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/ps.44.7.671.

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Berman-Rossi, Toby, and Marcia B. Cohen. "Group Development and Shared Decision Making Working with Homeless Mentally Ill Women." Social Work With Groups 11, no. 4 (March 29, 1989): 63–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j009v11n04_07.

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Hodgins, Sheilagh, Jane Alderton, Adrian Cree, Andrew Aboud, and Timothy Mak. "Aggressive behaviour, victimisation and crime among severely mentally ill patients requiring hospitalisation." British Journal of Psychiatry 191, no. 4 (October 2007): 343–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.bp.106.06.029587.

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BackgroundSevere mental illness is associated with increased risk of aggressive behaviour, crime and victimisation. Mental health policy does not acknowledge this evidence. The number of forensic beds has risen dramatically.AimsTo examine the prevalence of aggressive behaviour, victimisation and criminality among people receiving in-patient treatment for severe mental illness in an inner-city area.MethodSelf-reports of aggressive behaviour and victimisation and criminal records were collected for 205 in-patients with severe mental illness.ResultsIn the preceding 6 months 49% of the men and 39% of the women had engaged in aggressive behaviour and 57% of the men and 48% of the women had been victims of assault; 47% of the men and 17% of the women had been convicted of at least one violent crime.ConclusionsAggressive behaviour and victimisation are common among severely mentally ill people requiring hospitalisation in the inner city. Rates of violent crime are higher than in the general population.

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Rousseau, Annie, and Anton F. de Man. "Authoritarian and Socially Restrictive Attitudes toward Mental Patients in Mental Health Volunteers and Nonvolunteers." Psychological Reports 83, no. 3 (December 1998): 803–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1998.83.3.803.

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31 French-Canadian mental health volunteers and 43 nonvolunteers participated in a study of the relationship between Authoritarian and Socially Restrictive attitudes toward mental patients and the variables of volunteer status, age, sex, education, having a mentally ill family member, Locus of Control, Extraversion, Psychoticism, Neuroticism, and Social Desirability. Bivariate and partial (Social Desirability effects removed) correlations suggested that scores on Authoritarian and Socially Restrictive attitudes are higher among older, less educated, less extraverted men and women who are not volunteers. Although volunteers compared to nonvolunteers had lower scores on Authoritarian and Socially Restrictive attitudes, they did not differ in terms of age, having a mentally ill family member or scores on Locus of Control, Extraversion, Psychoticism, Neuroticism, and Social Desirability; however, volunteers were better educated.

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Kloni, P., D. Angelopoulou, E. Vardari, A. Zotos, A. Psychogiou, and M. Theodoratou. "600 Greek people's attitudes towards family hosts for mentally ill persons." European Psychiatry 33, S1 (March 2016): S193. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.438.

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IntroductionFamily hosts for people with mental diseases is a quite new institution in Greece [1,2].ObjectivesThe study investigated Greek people's attitudes toward mentally ill people and their institutionalisationAimsThe survey investigated Greek society's attitudes and bias concerning Family Host Programs for the mentally ill.MethodsQuestionnaires were administered to a sample of six hundred (600) people in the cities of Patras, Pyrgos and Mesologgi, Southern Greece from May the 27th to June the 12thResultsOf the respondents, 47.3% were men while 52.7% were women. Most citizens were not familiar with the term “Host Family” and were not aware of this new institution (62.7%). However, many knew a person that suffered from mental illness environment (35.7%), but they thought that mentally ill people would be rather a “burden” to foster families (32.2%).ConclusionsAlthough many people knew well a person with mental illness, they were not aware of psychiatric reforms and community based programs. In conclusion, psycho-educational programs contributing to repel bias towards psychiatric patients should be implemented.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

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Stephens, B. Joyce. "Suicidal Women and Their Relationships with Their Parents." OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 16, no. 4 (June 1986): 289–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/u0b4-pg9n-299a-wq21.

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This study examines the families-of-origin of suicidal females, with particular focus on their parents. The data are drawn from fifty female suicide attempters and include life history materials, diaries and letters, interviews with therapists, and material from group counseling sessions. Five parental characteristics are identified and described-non-nurturing parents, absent parents, abusive parents, mentally ill parents, and alcoholic parents. These characteristics are described and examples presented. Their relationship to the individuals' suicidal behaviors is discussed.

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Virgona, Angelo, Neil Buhrich, and Maree Teesson. "Prevalence of Schizophrenia among Women in Refuges for the Homeless." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 27, no. 3 (September 1993): 405–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/00048679309075796.

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There are considerably more homeless mentally ill men than women. However the rate of mental illness among homeless women appears to be relatively greater than for men. We found the lifetime prevalence of schizophrenia among a cohort of 54 women residing in refuges for the homeless in inner Sydney to be approximately 30%. Only three of the women had a history of prolonged stay in a psychiatric institution. Schizophrenic women had resided at the refuges for longer than non-schizophrenic women.

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Mowbray, Carol T., and Philip Chamberlain. "Sex Differences Among the Long-Term Mentally Disabled." Psychology of Women Quarterly 10, no. 4 (December 1986): 383–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-6402.1986.tb00763.x.

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Although the “chronically mentally ill” have become a subject of national concern and although differences among the young, old, and minorities have been recognized, sex differences have been largely ignored. The authors describe the experientially determined problems of long-term mentally disabled women. Research is presented from a review of 320 hospital records of patients served in seven community and state hospitals throughout Michigan, encompassing client variables and service information. Significant sex differences were found for client age, marital status, living arrangement, diagnosis, functioning level, voluntary/involuntary status, admission information, medications, medical care and destination post-discharge. Many of the results confirm stereotypes of sex differences in institutionalized populations (age, diagnosis, and so forth). Other results, such as more women living independently and no sex differences in violent behaviors, are contrary to popular assumptions. Using case studies, the authors further discuss the important issues suggested by the results, e.g., why women become psychiatric patients, discharge planning, and over-medications. A plea is made for a greater amount and intensity of research on women with long-term mental disabilities.

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Gotlib, Dorothy, Elizabeth Perelstein, Jacob Kurlander, Kara Zivin, Michelle Riba, and Maria Muzik. "Guideline Adherence for Mentally Ill Reproductive-Aged Women on Treatment With Valproic Acid." Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 77, no. 04 (April 27, 2016): 527–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.4088/jcp.15m10046.

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Handel, Maryellen. "Deferred Pelvic Examinations: A Purposeful Omission in the Care of Mentally Ill Women." Psychiatric Services 36, no. 10 (October 1985): 1070–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.10.1070.

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Goodman, Lisa A., Mary Ann Dutton, and Maxine Harris. "The relationship between violence dimensions and symptom severity among homeless, mentally ill women." Journal of Traumatic Stress 10, no. 1 (January 1997): 51–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jts.2490100106.

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