Chesler writes about psychiatry still being used as a weapon to silence and intimidate women, especially in cases where women complain about discrimination and sexual harassment in the work place. Chesler discusses her own experiences with being asked to get a psychiatric evaluation and the events that lead her to write "Women and Madness." She also discusses the book "Women of the Asylum" which is an anthology of first person accounts by psychiatrically hospitalized women in the United States from 1840-1945.
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