Psychopathology in Women (2^nd Ed., 2nd ed. 2019)
Incorporating Gender Perspective into Descriptive Psychopathology

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.

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

Marga Sáenz-Herrero was awarded with a degree in Medicine at the University of Valladolid. She received her PhD in Medicine in 2004 from Complutense University in Madrid. She is a specialist in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy by Comillas University and specialist in Integrative Psychotherapy by Alcalá University. In 2009, she received a Specialization in Forensic Psychiatry. 

She has been an Associate Professor at Complutense University until 2005 where she taught undergraduate and postgraduate students. Since 2009, she is teaching medical students at Basque University in Vitoria. She has been also Tutor of Psychiatric Residents since 2009 at Alava University Hospital, and she is currently tutoring Medical Residents in Psychiatry at Cruces University Hospital in Bilbao.

She has worked in different hospitals as Sant Boi Psychiatric Hospital in Barcelona and Alava University Hospital until 2015 when she started working at Cruces University Hospital in Bilbao. 

As an author, she has published more than 20 international posters and communications both nationally and internationally. She has contributed as speaker more than 50 presentations in national and international Congress. She has contributed with several articles in magazines worldwide and 20 chapters of books.. She has edited several books. In 2015, she edited Psychopathology in Women, a Gender perspective with Springer. 

Her recent research focuses on Gender Perspective as a Paradigm in Clinical Psychopathology, in the use of Psychotherapeutic approaches in Daily Clinical Practice. She has actively participated in several Research Projects and has led different Projects. She collaborates as a researcher at Cibersam, led by Ana Gonzá