Žene, duševno zdravlje i politika isključivanja
WOMEN, MENTAL HEALTH AND THE POLICY OF EXCLUSION

Summary/Abstract: The article describes the discursive past and present practices which influence the mental health of women. It shows the ways how some women internalize the socially constructed images of women’s illness and at the same time how some women express the pain through mental distress. Inside the west European feminist psychology and feminist social action, many research have been done to show the damaging effect of psychiatric institution. The article presents an example of feminist research of the women’s psychiatric ward in Central Europe in Slovenia. The research uses the life history approach which shows the ’moral language’ that the women has internalized during their life, the experiences of poverty, isolation and violence. While the institutionalization of women has a long tradition, the feminist social action has to advocate for alternatives for women with different disabilities to become more visible and more included. For feminist theory and practice is important that while supporting some women they don’t exclude the others, whose social image is more determined with the past negative social images which produce unintentional racism in everyday life.

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