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Women, psychosis and violence

Taylor, Pamela Jane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3998-6095 and Bragado-Jimenez, Maria Dolores 2009. Women, psychosis and violence. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 32 (1) , pp. 56-64. 10.1016/j.ijlp.2008.11.001

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Abstract

Psychosis confers a disproportionate risk of violence on women compared with men, but such women barely affect national crime statistics anywhere. Much research in the field does not include women at all. In our literature review, we found that information about women, psychosis and violence generally had to be extracted from studies including women but focussing on men; not uncommonly analyses ‘controlled for gender’ rather than treating it as interesting in itself. A tendency for women to be older than men at onset of psychosis may not apply to those who become violent, but women with psychosis do seem to start offending later and desist sooner. Rates of seriously adverse childhood experiences are similar between women and men with psychosis, except for sexual abuse—more frequently reported by the women. Some evidence of special patterns for women in the nature of psychosis and violence relationships requires more exploration, as do treatment questions. With so few women in any one service, multi-centre co-operation in research with them will be essential.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Medicine
MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG)
Subjects: R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Uncontrolled Keywords: women, psychosis, violence
Publisher: Elsevier
ISSN: 0160-2527
Last Modified: 19 Oct 2022 10:43
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/25301

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