Mad, Bad And Sad
A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present
$53.36
- Paperback
608 pages
- Release Date
1 March 2009
Summary
Mad, bad and sad. From the depression suffered by Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath to the mental anguish and addictions of iconic beauties Zelda Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe. From Freud and Jung and the radical breakthroughs of psychoanalysis to Lacan’s construction of a modern movement and the new women-centred therapies. This is the story of how we have understood mental disorders and extreme states of mind in women over the last two hundred years and how we conceive of them today, when mor…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844082346 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844082342 |
| Author: | Lisa Appignanesi |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 608 |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2009 |
| Weight: | 440g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 40mm |
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A tantalising mix of polemic and history, of ideology and fact … A gripping read … In a league far above any other book of its kind on this topic - SUNDAY BUSINESS POST
Subtle, textured and enthralling … One of the great strengths of this book is the way in which it charts the uncanny relationship between fashions in psychiatric theory and sufferers’ symptoms - SUNDAY TIMESMarvellous. At last! A serious, well-researched book on this important subject - Pamela StephensonThe triumph of MAD, BAD AND SAD is to mix evocative case studies with potted histories of the great and good of psychology and psychiatry … an intelligent and academically rigorous - OBSERVERAbout The Author
Lisa Appignanesi
Lisa Appignanesi was born in Poland. A novelist and writer, she is a former Deputy Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, is Chair of the Freud Museum, and President of English PEN.
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