Silencing the Self: Women and Depression

Dana Crowley Jack offers startling insights into the roots of female depression that draw on new understandings of the importance of relationships in women's lives. Attending closely to what depressed women have to say about their experiences, Jack reframes major concepts of depression, freeing them from traditional models that have restricted our ability to listen to women's own perspectives. Silencing the Self is a ground-breaking and revelatory book. SC, 249 pages.