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Title: Madwives: Schizophrenic Women in the 1950's by Carol A. B. Warren ISBN: 0-8135-1689-7 Publisher: Rutgers University Press Pub. Date: June, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (3 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: A must read for future clinicians!
Comment: As a future clinical psychologist, I see it as my responsibility to not take past abuses of the field lightly. This book is a reminder that, whatever one's motivations, to carry the title of "psychologist" entitles one to a great degree of power over the lives of others. Despite what my fellow reviewer wrote, Warren makes no claims that the field has gone stagnant. Her critique of psychiatry and institutionalization as forms of social control is powerful and insightful. To paraphrase the old adage, those ignorant of the past are doomed to repeat it. If only for this reason, this is a must read for clinicians of any background.

Rating: 3
Summary: CONFIRMING THE FEARS OF MY YOUNGER SELF
Comment: I am a historian, not a psychologist, so, perhaps my evaluation of this book is not valid. However, I picked up the book because the very title addressed 1.) the basic reason why I became a feminist of my own sort; 2.)something frightening that I noticed as late as 1972. 1.)During the late 1950s, alcoholism among women -- no, make that housewives because the concern was not for all adult females -- began to be a theme in women's magazines and in private conversations. Women, bored and lonely in their homes, were falling prey to Demon Rum. On the other side of the fence, men were dying too young of heart attacks because as the sole breadwinners they were far too stressed. The call went up for a new synthesis: another way of approaching the family and its income. Co-incidentally or perhaps not so co-incidentally, Simone de Beauvoir and Betty Friedan published their essays on women. The first wave of Baby Boomers went to college, convinced that their's would be a life different than their parents: those who wanted to be married were positive that each wife and each husband would find part-time jobs and would share the tasks of child-rearing equally. That, for many women of my generation, was feminism and we became that kind of feminist in order not to end up tippling at the kitchen table. 2.) Once all those Baby Boomers had their degrees in hand and were working or in graduate school, it seemed that friends would sometimes fall from the ranks. Where was Karen? Linda? Diane? In mental hospitals. If we ever knew a male mental patient, he was always a total whacko, but Karen was successfully pursuing a ph.d in English and Linda had a wonderful baby and a husband who adored her and Diane's career was blossoming. Do you catch my drift? Women who seemed normal, who had every reason to go on with what seemed like productive and happy lives ended up in hospitals but there never seemed to be a male population of mental patients. I found Carol Warren's book helpful in addressing the issues of women and alcoholism and other social ills of the 1950s and in answering the still lingering concerns about people like Linda and Karen and Diane. As for the previous reviewer from Kansas who was irritated by this book: in Kansas, they're still doing battle with Charles Darwin.

Rating: 1
Summary: One sided, historically inaccurate view of modern psyc.
Comment: I could not stand to read more than two pages at a time! This book takes a very one-sided look at a very specific set of Psychological Cases and tries to explain the actions of Psychiatry on the basis of Society. When in fact the doctors were working in the best interest of the patient. Warren makes very little effort to explain how psychology has improved and dismisses any modern improvements as sociological propaganda. If you respect the science of Psychology, do not read this book.