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In every generation there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy' Ian Hacking 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 Theroigne de Mericourt, Fury of the Gironde, who descended from the bloody triumphs of the French Revolution to untameable insanity in La Salpetriere asylum, to Mary Lamb, sister of Charles, who in the throes of a nervous breakdown turned on her mother with a kitchen knife. From Freud and Jung to Lacan and the new women-centred therapies. This is the story of how we have understood extreme states of mind 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. MAD, BAD AND SAD takes us on a fascinating journey through the fragile, extraordinary human mind.Product Identifiers
PublisherLittle, Brown Book Group
ISBN-139781844082339
eBay Product ID (ePID)92145789
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Book TitleMad, Bad and Sad: a History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present
AuthorLisa Appignanesi
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicZoology, Psychology
Publication Year2008
TypeTextbook
Number of Pages560 Pages
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Item Height240mm
Item Width156mm
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Title_AuthorLisa Appignanesi
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
