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Standard Issue Podcast

SIM Ep 707 Chops 240: Sexy But Psycho?

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Psychologist and working-class feminist author Dr Jessica Taylor’s new book, Sexy But Psycho: How the Patriarchy Uses Women’s Trauma Against Them, is an uncompromising challenge to the psychiatric labelling and medicalisation of women and girls. And blimey, what a book: huge food for thought and a push for seismic change, engagingly written. In this Chops, she chats to our Mick (fresh from having her mind blown) about why she’s challenging the traditional medical model of psychiatry, the incalculable damage caused by pathologising women, the straight line between “she’s a witch!”, “hysteria” and borderline and emotionally unstable personality disorders, false comfort in diagnosis, why everyone should be cautious when seeking mental health diagnoses, and the huge pros of a trauma informed response to mental health. Oh, and why Freud needs to get in the sea. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Some things just add some play to your day, catching the toast as it pops out of the toaster, dancing down the street to your favourite place.

0:09.0

Wearing a sparkly boots to the shop.

0:11.0

Best of all, picking the new Red Scratch Card.

0:14.0

A Red Scratch Card, please. Thank you.

0:17.0

And doing your own drum roll. This is exciting.

0:21.0

Add some play to your day, with Scratch Cards from the National Lottery.

0:25.0

As that's true big, play small. Brothers and procedures are by a place must be 18 or over.

0:43.0

Standard issue for all women.

0:46.0

Hello and welcome to this week's Sunday Chops.

0:48.0

Mickey here, saying hello, and also bringing you a little extra information than is usual.

0:53.0

A head of my chat with the brilliant Dr Jessica Taylor about her new book, sexy book Psycho.

0:58.0

How the patriarchy uses women's trauma against them. I mean, what a title.

1:03.0

And what a book, an uncompromising challenge to the psychiatric labelling and medicalisation of women and girls.

1:10.0

Now, challenging contemporary psychiatry, which sees and sells itself as a force for good, is a bold move.

1:17.0

But there is good reason for Jess's interrogation of a medical institution that has a long-gold history of pathologising and sexualising women and girls.

1:27.0

As the always excellent journalist Victoria Smith said in a recent piece for the critic,

1:31.0

no one is ever in any doubt about psychiatry's shameful past.

1:35.0

Father's institutionalising way would daughters, husbands locking up inconvenient wives, brains destroyed for being too female, too black, too gay.

1:45.0

And while we're told to think about those errors as something very much in the past, a little thinking shows, well, not so much really,

1:52.0

we might not have lobotomies anymore, thank goodness.

1:55.0

But we do have high strength medications that perform pretty much the same function.

2:00.0

It's a complicated and emotional subject with a lot of people invested in maintaining the status quo.

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