I gave it three stars not because it was mediocre book, but because it was both horrible and great, at the same time. Let’s to step by step. A game-changing reflective journal for everyone who is ready for critical thought about their practice.

An overfocus on sexual abuse. Yes, that’s a VERY important topic, but it leads one to simplify the plethora of stressors and traumas that women can experience. What about poverty? Childhood neglect? Early deaths of family members? There are so many possible traumas and this book could have really benefited from taking a more extensive look at them, rather than simply defaulting only and solely to sexual violence. In 2020, Taylor self-published her thesis as a book titled Why Women are Blamed for Everything. Based on three years of doctoral research and 10 years of practice with women and girls, the book focuses on the reasons why society and individual psychology blames women for male violence committed against them. [14] It draws on the psychometric measure Taylor developed during her doctoral research–called the BOWSVA scale–which measures the way the general public and professionals apportion blame to women and girls who have been subjected to sexual violence. The book also includes interviews with women who have been blamed for sexual assaults and professionals working in sexual violence services who are attempting to deconstruct victim blaming. [14] Doctor" Jessica Taylor - have a Google of her interactions with people - has jumped onto the paranoia felt by privileged women and declared that all cishet women are indeed "psycho" because men. This is the white feminism equivalent of "you just need to get better sleep hygiene and vitamin C".It’s true that many of the responses we’ve pathologised into symptoms of mental illness are actually natural and rational reactions to trauma and distress, and it’s true that diagnoses of these mental illnesses are, too often, used to undermine, discredit, discriminate against, and section those diagnosed with them - disproportionately, women. There has been a clear path from being castigated as a witch, to being labelled as crazy, to the modern-

Why women are blamed for everything: exploring victim blaming of women subjected to violence and trauma. OCLC 1159730638 . Retrieved 11 July 2020– via worldcat.org. As my interviews with professionals and women continued, it became strikingly clear that women in mental health units were being dehumanised, and female professionals were bearing witness to this oppression and control. More and more women were waking up to the reality of psychiatry as a dangerous, risky place for women and girls to be – and were doing everything they could to subvert an established and powerful system of misogyny. In 2022, Taylor published her second book, Sexy But Psycho: Uncovering the Labelling of Women and Girls through Constable. She described it as ”mixture of academic research, history, psychology and real-life stories of women and girls who have been told that they are mentally ill, instead of being listened to”. [19] The book focuses on how mental illness has historically been used to discredit women, focusing especially on the 2000s and pop artist Britney Spears. [20] Flood, Alison (24 April 2020). "Author of book about victim blaming bombarded with misogynist abuse". The Guardian . Retrieved 10 July 2020. Keep collections to yourself or inspire other shoppers! Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections - they may also appear in recommendations and other places.Women are not responsible for being victims of sexual assault, rape or domestic violence. They do not need to learn how to not date shit men. Men need to not be shit. I am still confused/troubled though. The acquaintances I have who have been through the medicalisation of serious mental health issues are, unsurprisingly, very difficult people to spend time with. It feels like a complicated intractable problem. A more systemic approach, looking at how centuries of history have framed our current psychiatric system, rather than simply blaming the people working in the system. She’s right; they weren’t taught alternatives and they’re oft punished for looking for them. In 2019, Taylor completed her PhD in forensic psychology from the University of Birmingham with a thesis titled ‘Logically, I know I'm not to blame but I still feel to blame’: exploring and measuring victim blaming and self-blame of women who have been subjected to sexual violence. [9] While working towards her doctoral degree, Taylor was appointed to Chair of the Parliamentary Conference on Violence Against Women and Girls. [10] Upon finishing her doctoral research, Taylor became a Senior Lecturer in Criminal and Forensic Psychology at the University of Derby. [11] [12] She was later recognized for her "contribution to the psychology of victim blaming of women, her work in mental health and her contribution to feminism" by the Royal Society of Arts. [13] The overwhelming majority of psychiatrists and certainly GPs have no education to understand they are over-medicating women to levels suited to male bodies and physiological systems. Essentially, we’re still doping women in docility albeit in a different form to what Freud and co. advised for hysteria.

That said, it's fairly obvious why this isn't an academic publication. There is a reference list at the end of the book and a few studies cited throughout, but not enough to buttress her arguments. There is no separate works cited or even an annotated bibliography. We are a product of all of our millions of experiences in life. However, trauma is a lifelong journey and it will impact women in different ways throughout the lifespan. Why Women are Blamed for Everything: Exploring Victim Blaming of Women Subjected to Abuse and Trauma (2020) [25] Why women are blamed for everything" book review". Archived from the original on 25 February 2021 . Retrieved 28 March 2021. Aside from the case studies and contributors stories, one of the more disturbing elements (for me) was recognition of how easy it is to slip into pathologisation, victim-blaming and self-blaming of and by ourselves, unintentionally and unnoticed, because we’re so indoctrinated and conditioned to accept the medical model of psychiatry.Don't abuse the trust of traumatized women to sell a book about how much the psychiatric system traumatizes women. You'd think that'd be an incredibly simple no-brainer, and yet. by the end of this book. I will have changed the way you see girls and women's mental health forever". Eaton, Jessica (12 December 2019). 'Logically, I know I'm not to blame but I still feel to blame': exploring and measuring victim blaming and self-blame of women who have been subjected to sexual violence. etheses.bham.ac.uk (d_ph) . Retrieved 10 July 2020.