- Title
- Feminist health psychology and abortion : towards a politics of transversal relations of commonality
- Creator
- Macleod, Catriona I
- Date
- 2012
- Type
- Text
- Identifier
- vital:6303
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015959
- Description
- In 1992 Speckhard and Rue argued in the Journal of Social Issues for the recognition of a diagnostic category, post-abortion syndrome (PAS). This term was first used in 1981 by Vincent Rue in testimony to the American Congress, but was only formalised in a published paper a decade later. Speckhard and Rue (1992) posit that abortion is a psychosocial stressor that may cause mild distress through to severe trauma, creating the need for a continuum of categories, these being post-abortion distress, post-abortion syndrome and post-abortion psychosis. PAS, which is the main focus of their paper, and which has taken root in some professional language as well as lay anti-abortion discourse, is described as a type of post-traumatic stress disorder.
- Format
- pdf, 21 pages
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Macleod, C. (2012). Feminist Health Psychology and abortion: towards a politics of transversal relations of commonality. In C. Horrocks and S. Johnson (Eds.), Advances in Health Psychology (pp. 153-168). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Available: http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/advances-in-health-psychology-christine-horrocks/?isb=9780230275386
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