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Item Details
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MAD, BAD AND SAD
A HISTORY OF WOMEN AND THE MIND DOCTORS |
| By: |
Lisa Appignanesi |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£27.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0393335437 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780393335439 |
| Publisher: |
WW NORTON & CO |
| Pub. date: |
25 August, 2009 |
| Pages: |
560 |
| Description: |
This brave and brilliantly researched intellectual history chronicles the relationship between women and mental illness since 1800, taking readers on a fascinating journey through the fragile, extraordinary human mind. 5 illustrations. |
| Synopsis: |
This fascinating history of mind doctors and their patients probes the ways in which madness, badness, and sadness have been understood over the last two centuries. Lisa Appignanesi charts a story from the days when the mad were considered possessed to our own century when the official psychiatric manual lists some 350 mental disorders. Women play a key role here, both as patients among them Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, and Marilyn Monroe and as therapists. Controversially, Appignanesi argues that women have significantly changed the nature of mind-doctoring, but in the process they have also inadvertently highlighted new patterns of illness." |
| Illustrations: |
black & white illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
WW Norton & Co |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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