ABSTRACT
A clinically oriented book focusing on the diagnostic understanding and treatment of the mental and physical health consequences of sexual harassment and other significant forms of gender discrimination in work and educational settings is both ahead of schedule and woefully late. It is ahead in the sense that the psychiatric symptomatology, the psychological sequelae, and the treatment interventions that will be described are aimed at a serious mental health problem, one that has been both incompletely defined and underrecognized as a health problem. As a result, the solid body of empirical research that should be available as a framework for discussion is relatively new, relatively scarce, and limited almost entirely to sexual harassment, which constitutes only one of the many forms of psychologically damaging gender-based discrimination. It is woefully late in the sense that little has been written about treatment interventions for gender discrimination, even though women have been entering the workplace in large numbers that have been documented since the 1970s; exposing themselves to various forms of gender discrimination, whose
prevalence has been well documented since the 1980s; and experiencing negative psychological consequences that have been well documented since the early 1990s.
