Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety
Judith Warner

The paradigm-shattering bestseller that investigates how women have fallen into the trap of "total motherhood," and how that mind-set damages them and their relationships with their husbands and children.

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Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety

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3 Quarks Daily 28 Feb 10:
... mental illness is over-diagnosed, that drugging children is the preferred method for dealing with the normal problems of childhood, and that normal children are being treated with powerful psychotropic medications simply because they are quirky and authentic. That's what Judith Warner (author of 'Perfect Madness') thought, too, when she sold a proposal back in 2004 for a book that would explore the over-diagnosis of mental illness and over-treatment of children with psychiatric medication. She knew it for all the reasons listed above: Childhood mental illness was rarely diagnosed in ...

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