'Women and Psychiatric Treatment' provides a comprehensive and practical guide to the treatment of female psychiatric patients. The authors consider the main variables which influence treatment, the therapies available, and give suggestions for the reform of training, research and service provision.

Women and Psychiatric Treatment provides a practical guide to the challenge of preserving fairness in access and quality of provision of health care and argues that equity is only achievable through greater recognition of gender differences.

Taking into account the main variables which influence treatment, such as setting, age and culture, clear suggestions are given for the reform of training, research and provision of services according to gender differences.

Divided into seven sections, the book discusses the following subjects:

• the background
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