Disruption of the Silenced Self: The Case of Premenstrual Syndrome

Silencing the Self Across Cultures: Depression and Gender in the Social World

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Ussher, Jane M ^a   Perz, Janette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anger; Depression; Pathologization; Premenstrual syndrome; Self silencing; Silencing the self scale; Suppression

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921259741     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195398090.003.0022     Document Type: Chapter

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