Mad, Bad and Sad - A History of Women and the Mind Doctors From 1800 to the Present
Author(s): Lisa Appignanesi
From Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath to Zelda Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe, from Freud and Jung to Lacan and women-centred therapies, this is the story of how we have understood extreme states of mind over the last 200 years and how we conceive of them today.
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Winner of Medical Journalists' Association Open Book Award: General Readership 2009. Commended for Warwick Prize for Writing 2009 and Mind Book of the Year Award 2009 and Duff Cooper Prize 2009. Long-listed for Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2008.
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.
General Fields
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- : Little Brown
- : Basic Books
- : 01 March 2009
- : books
Special Fields
- : Lisa Appignanesi
- : Paperback