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TARGET AUDIENCE: Readers of Invisible Women, Unwell Women, and Burnout, plus recent mental health bestsellers like Rachel Aviv's Strangers to Ourselves and Stephanie Foo's What My Bones Know. Readers of literary memoirs about mental and physical illness including The Empathy Exams, The Collected Schizophrenias, The Center Cannot Hold.
UNIQUE MENTAL HEALTH ANGLE: While there are several books about medical bias against women, All In Her Head specifically focuses on the gaps in mental health care, and how women's thoughts and emotions are stigmatized and over-medicalized.
PERSONAL STORY: Author and mental health researcher Misty Pratt weaves in her own story of healing from a mental illness, alongside interviews with women about their experience navigating the mental health system.
ADDRESSES ROOT CAUSES OF MENTAL ILLNESS: All In Her Head explores women's specific risk factors for anxiety and depression, why women are more likely to be prescribed antidepressants, how race and class affect mental health, and more.
UNIQUE MENTAL HEALTH ANGLE: While there are several books about medical bias against women, All In Her Head specifically focuses on the gaps in mental health care, and how women's thoughts and emotions are stigmatized and over-medicalized.
PERSONAL STORY: Author and mental health researcher Misty Pratt weaves in her own story of healing from a mental illness, alongside interviews with women about their experience navigating the mental health system.
ADDRESSES ROOT CAUSES OF MENTAL ILLNESS: All In Her Head explores women's specific risk factors for anxiety and depression, why women are more likely to be prescribed antidepressants, how race and class affect mental health, and more.