This is the white feminism equivalent of "you just need to get better sleep hygiene and vitamin C". Whether it is women reporting cancer symptoms or raising concerns about botched vaginal mesh surgery that has caused them serious health complications, research shows that they are still much more likely to be ignored, minimised or diagnosed with mental health issues. Partially, this will be due to medicine and much of science being based on men and male bodies, with women and female bodies still being seen as too complicated and too much of a variable to be included in medical trials. Debunked' psychological diagnoses of Amber Heard 'must be discounted' ". The Independent. 28 April 2022. Why women are blamed for everything" book review". Archived from the original on 25 February 2021 . Retrieved 28 March 2021. We are a product of all of our millions of experiences in life. However, trauma is a lifelong journey and it will impact women in different ways throughout the lifespan.

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. Jessica Taylor FRSA is a British feminist author and campaigner. Taylor is the author of the 2020 book Why Women Are Blamed For Everything. She has made appearances on British television, including BBC Two documentary Womanhood, [1] and in the true crime documentary My Lover, My Killer, which aired on Channel Five. [2] Early life [ edit ]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.

Many of us become aware as the years pass that supporting or passively accepting the psychiatric labelling of women and girls will harm them in the long run. They may feel better temporarily, whilst they feel in control, empowered and informed that they have been given a formal diagnosis and prescription which ‘validates’ their ‘mental health’, but what will really happen is that they will be pathologised, judged, stigmatised and treated as though they are going to be mentally ill for the rest of their lives. Whilst vital research into endometriosis receives little to no resource or funding, here were funded academics writing about how sexy women are with a painful disease, and whether men were getting enough sex from women who were struggling with chronic pain from endometriosis.” 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. She has also failed to convince me that there are no cases in which medical intervention is helpful or necessary; ironically, I could provide plenty of anecdotes which would fully support their use. Her failure lies in the fact that these statements, while being the logical conclusions of her arguments, are also entirely outside of the scope of this book, which was overambitious and under-researched, drawing laughable conclusions from valid questions, the worst kind of pop psychology. The plural of anecdote is not data, and “challenging to read” =/= radical truth. Knowing those two things, the bulk of Sexy but Psycho’s worth is already nullified.Please be aware that the delivery time frame may vary according to the area of delivery - the approximate delivery time is usually between 1-2 business days. Author of victim-blaming book targeted by misogynist trolls". The Independent. 25 April 2020 . Retrieved 9 June 2022. A nuanced argument around CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy), ie that it is good for some things (eg fear of heights) and horrible for others (eg years and years of complex trauma). I have long been very skeptical of CBT approaches and it’s interesting to be presented with a view that is both contextualized and actually makes sense. Jessica Eaton – Individual Award Nominee – 2018". emmahumphreys.org. 19 January 2019 . Retrieved 10 July 2020. Taylor grew up in a council estate in Stoke-on-Trent. [3] She said that she was repeatedly sexually and physically abused as a teenager by men in her town, which she kept hidden from her family. As the result of her repeated rapes, Taylor gave birth to her first child at the age of 17 and reported her abuse to the police. [3] Career [ edit ]

Jessica Eaton Granted a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts". sateda.org. 26 April 2019. Archived from the original on 10 July 2020 . Retrieved 10 July 2020.The book is centered almost exclusively on the author's own research conducted by her at her institute - fine, but that means there is no oversight or peer-review. Outside of limited sources narrowed in scope, the evidence presented is primarily anecdotal or self-reported. I personally believe that victims rarely lie, so I accept the accounts as they are given; however, had I realized this prior to purchasing, I most likely would have sought out a library copy. This book is a collection of disclosures by victims who were then further traumatized by an archaic system that often doesn't know how or care to help them. Taylor began volunteering with domestic violence victims before deciding to earn her Bachelor of Science Hons degree in psychology from the Open University. [4] Upon receiving her degree, Taylor co-founded The Eaton Foundation, a Male Mental Health and Wellbeing Centre in the UK, with Alex Eaton. [5] She eventually quit her job and founded VictimFocus, which she describes as "a company designed to challenge and change the victim blaming practices in social care, policing, mental health and support services all over the world." [6] In 2017 and 2018, she was shortlisted for the Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize. [7] [8]

I do not believe that all mental diagnoses are claptrap and psychopharmalogical intervention is equivalent to malfeasance. What concerns me are the people who might read this and feel unseen or abandoned by the systems and professionals meant to protect and aid them, and stop taking their medication(s) without supervision. The author displays little to no understanding of pharmacokinetics, and her assertion that these medications are unnecessary (and her denial that they can be life-saving) is alarming.

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The cultural specificity of mental health has always intrigued me. I have spent years wondering why we as white, western, English speaking professionals think we have got it all figured out, whilst ridiculing and discrediting the research, wisdom and medicine of other cultures. Predictably, Amber Heard Just Got Diagnosed With BPD and HPD". www.victimfocus.org.uk. 29 April 2022. The Little Orange Book: learning about abuse from the voice of the child. OCLC 1054886898 . Retrieved 11 July 2020– via worldcat.org. PhD student announced as Chair of the Parliamentary Conference on Violence Against Women and Girls". birmingham.ac.uk. 5 September 2017 . Retrieved 11 July 2020.