Dear Readers… This is to let you know about an event to be held on 15th May 2013 at 5-8pm at Room E32, John Dalton Tower, All Saints Campus, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester.

I came across an interesting recent book on women and madness by Jane Ussher, a critical health psychologist, the other day. I first became familiar with  Jane Ussher’s work when I was doing my PhD on the construction of adolescent depression as a socio-cultural phenomenon back in the 1990s and I found a book of hers I read then with the title Women’s madness: Misogyny or Mental Illness? (Amherst, MA, US: University of Massachusetts Press, 1991) very insightful.