This volume presents the knowledge, views, and experiences of ex- perts in the fields of health care that are particularly important to women. Not all of the authors agree on all of the issues, but all share the same concerns about women's health and recognize the impor- tance of providing information to enable women to become active par- ticipants in the health care partnership. The idea for the book evolved from our own work in the field of women's health care. The positive responses we received to several papers and presentations based on our experiences and addressed to patients,...

This volume continues some of the issues raised in Volume 2 and fo- cuses more closely on therapeutic intervention. The theoretical discus- sion of aggression provides a background for the presentation of pat- terns of aggression and violence affecting women, as well as possible connections between physical and emotional symptoms and indirect expressions of aggression. The section on aggression against and by women is an extension of some of the content of The Woman Patient, Volume 1 (e. g., the chapter on rape). Theoretical and clinical views that are not often linked in this fashion are...