This book examines sex and gender differences in the causes and expression of medical conditions, including mental health disorders.

Sex differences are variations attributable to individual reproductive organs and the XX or XY chromosomal complement. Gender differences are variations that result from biological sex as well as individual self-representation which include psychological, behavioural, and social consequences of an individual's perceived gender.

Gender is still a neglected field in psychopathology, and gender differences is often incorrectly used as a synonym of sex differences. A reconsideration of the definition of gender, as the term that subsumes masculinity and femininity, could shed some light on this misperception and could have an effect in the study of health and disease.

This second edition of Psychopathology clarifies the anthropological, cultural and social aspects of gender and their impact on mental health disorders. It focuses ongender perspective as a paradigm not only in psychopathology but also in mental health disorders. As such it promotes open mindedness in the definition and perception of symptoms, as well as assumptions about those symptoms, and raises awareness of mental health.

Historical and Cultural Aspects: Women and mental Health all over the world

Sex, Brain and Gender: Neurobiology
Sexual Differentiation of the Human Nervous System
Psychosocial Aspects
Specific Pathology in Women: Body Image, Corporality and Corporeality
Body and corporality
Concept and History of Body Image
Body and Hysteria: Dissociated body
Corporality and Trauma
Dysmorphophobia: From Neuroticism to Psychoticism
Self Identity and Gender differences
Psychopathology of Eating Behavior
Anorexia Nervosa
Bulimia Nervosa
Binge Eating Disorder
Eating Disorder not otherwise specified
Avoidant/ restrictive food intake disorders
Psychopathology of Sexuality
Psychopathology of Life Instinct
Psychopathology associated to Hormonal Aspects: Relation of Estrogen, cycle phases and Psychopathology in Women
Dysphoric Syndrome
Depression during Pregnancy
Postpartum and postnatal depression
Puerperal Psychosis
Menopause Depression
Psychopathology andGender in Psychiatric Syndromes and New Disorders: Mood Disorders
Anxiety Disorders
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Schizophrenia
Bipolar Disorder
Personality Disorders and Gender Differences
Borderline Personality Disorder
Addiction
Social and cultural differences
Somatomorphic and Factitious Disorders
Psychopathology Gender, Creativity, Body Art and Feminism
Controversial Aspects