Sexy But Psycho: How the Patriarchy Uses Women’s Trauma Against Them

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She reminds us that not everything that is uncomfortable or unpleasant is a disease to be diagnosed and medicated and that difficult human experiences and emotions can be best addressed and supported by humans. What concerns me are the people who might read this and feel unseen or abandoned by the systems and professionals meant to protect and aid them, and stop taking their medication(s) without supervision. After all, are women suffering because of a chemical imbalance, or do women suffer due to the consistent, varied trauma we experience on a regular basis?

Why Women are Blamed for Everything sold 10,000 copies in its first two months before being bought by the publishing company Constable. In 2019, she was awarded a Fellowship of Royal Society of Arts for her contribution to feminism and psychology. I also agree that there are a lot of medics who honestly have no clue regarding trauma, sternly subscribe to the medical model, and medics who have no idea of the problematic history of many medical practices and diagnoses.She eventually quit her job and founded VictimFocus, which she describes as "a company designed to challenge and change the victim blaming practices in social care, policing, mental health and support services all over the world. 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.

Lastly, if the mental illness in women is fake and only caused by abuse and patriarchy, then why do the same issues exist in men? She was formerly a senior lecturer in forensic and criminal psychology at the University of Derby and has authored a number of books including Why Women are Blamed for Everything, which sold 10,000 copies in its first two months. It is a distressing, disturbing and uncomfortable read, but a very important and enlightening one nonetheless.

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.