History of Female Sexual Dysfunction
In the early 20th century, American psychiatry became increasingly professionalized and medicalized; from the 1930s, it also became significantly psychoanalytic. Psychoanalysis – not Freud’s own writings as much as their elaboration by others – dominated discussions of female sexuality and its problems, frigidity in particular. Too much – or too little – desire figured in […]
The tainted past between Hysteria & Women
The Tainted Past Between Hysteria & Women What is hysteria? What is its colored past exactly like? How did mankind even come to this particular diagnosis of all? It doesn’t matter whether you are well-versed with psychology terminology or the latest version of the ICD, chances are that you have read/heard about the controversial past […]
Explaining Microaggressions
It’s no secret that we live in a divisive world. The world for privileged groups is different than the world minority groups live in. Subjected to overt and subtle gestures of discrimination, the minority groups learn to live in this divisive world. Women, people of color, LGBTQ+ community, and religious minorities face encounter a lot […]