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

by Lisa Appignanesi (Author), Lisa Appignanesi (Author), Lisa Appignanesi (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2009

  $30.21

  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.

• Used

  Hardcover
  2008

  $33.73

  A brave and brilliantly researched intellectual history of the relationship between women and mental illness since 1800.