Issues for Women in the Development of Mental Health Services

Abstract

“Except as occasional consultants, the less men doctors have to do with female lunatics the better”. (Lowe, 1883) “As long as women are over-represented among mental patients and family caretakers and under-represented among psychiatrists, administrators and politicians, their lives will continue to be unhappily affected by decisions in which they take no part”. (Showalter, 1987)