Palgrave Macmillan Feminist And Anti-Psychiatry Perspectives On ‘Social Anxiety Disorder’

This book conceptualises the diagnosis ‘Social Anxiety Disorder’ (SAD) in women as a rational response to life in postfeminist, neoliberal, twenty-first century Britain. By speaking to women with this diagnosis, and drawing on the author’s lived experience, it investigates the interplay between wome...