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Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800

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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 more and more of our inner life and emotions have become a matter for medics and therapists.

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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 TIMES *

* 'Fascinating ... In this sweeping, humaned and formidable researched study ... Lisa Appignanes does what all the very best investigative writers and journalists do: she raises questions for us to anwer.' Carmen Callil, DAILY TELEGRAPH *

* 'There is some wonderful writing here and plenty of sharp insights ... Lisa Appignanesi has said it is the book she has been writing all her life. It is also, in many ways, the book we have been waiting for' Francis Wilson NEW STATESMAN

* 'The 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 study' OBSERVER *

* 'Ambitious, sobering and often entertaining account of a contentious subject, which, at the same time is scholarly, acute and written with judgement. Appignanesi's prose is lucid and unpretentious' GUARDIAN

* 'Mad, Bad and Sad is constantly interesting...wonderfully engaging and enlightening' INDEPENDENT

* 'Informative in startling ways, and never dull in the academic way, Appignanesi's genuinely new History of the Mind Doctors is a subtle and accessible account of that perhaps most daunting of modern relationships, the one between the Mind Doctor and his female patient. Because Appignanesi has a complex story to tell there is no blaming at work in this wonderful book, but a shrewd and sympathetic apprehension of what is at stake in the difficult histories of both the Mind Doctors and those they seek to help. It is a remarkable achievement' Adam Phillips

Author Biography

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.

Author Biography:

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.
Release date Australia
May 26th, 2017
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Pages
608
Dimensions
128x198x40
ISBN-13
9781844082346
Product ID
2698879

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