Gender and Psychopathology

Contents: Gender, development, and psychopathology: a revised psychodynamic view. Multiple personality and gender: a historical approach. Psychopathology and non-Mendelian inheritance. Epidemiology and theories of gender differences in unipolar depression. Gender differences in mood disorders: a clinical focus. Gender differences in the prevalence and expression of anxiety disorders. Gender, brain, and schizophrenia: anatomy of differences/differences of anatomy. The impact of gender on understanding the epidemiology of schizophrenia. Gender and the familial transmission of schizophrenia. Gender differences in treatment response in schizophrenia. Gender differences in eating disorders. Gender differences in sleep disorders. Gender differences in somatoform disorders. Alcohol and other psychoactive substance dependence in women and men. Health care provision for men and women. Conclusion. Index.Seeman, Mary V. is the author of 'Gender and Psychopathology' with ISBN 9780880485647 and ISBN 0880485647.