Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors
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- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2009
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 537 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780393335439
- Publisher:
- W. W. Norton & Company Limited
- Date of Addition:
- 10/31/11
- Copyrighted By:
- Lisa Appignanesi
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Disability-Related, Health, Mind and Body, Psychology, Medicine
- Submitted By:
- Deborah Kent Stein
- Proofread By:
- Tomoko Miles
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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