Mad, Bad, and Sad by Lisa Appignanesi

Mad, Bad, and Sad by Lisa Appignanesi

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.

Ambitious. . brilliant . . . a powerhouse of a book. -- Daphne Merkin - New York Sun
Fascinating. . . . A meticulous and exhaustive account. -- Kathryn Harrison - New York Times Book Review
Sophisticated, vigorously written, full of striking subtexts . . .an entertaining and well-researched book that avoids easy answers. -- Andrew Scull - Times Literary Supplement

Lisa Appignanesi, is the author of Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors and All About Love: Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion. A prize-winning novelist and writer, she is the president of English PEN. She lives in London.

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ISBN 13	9780393335439
ISBN 10	0393335437
Titel	Mad, Bad, and Sad
Autor	Lisa Appignanesi
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	WW Norton & Co
Erscheinungsjahr	2009-08-25
Seitenanzahl	554
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