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OverviewThis 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, 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 Mary Lamb, sister of Charles, who in the throes of a nervous breakdown turned on her mother with a kitchen knife, to Freud, Jung, and Lacan, who developed the new women-centered therapies, Lisa Appignanesi’s research traces how more and more of the inner lives and emotions of women have become a matter for medics and therapists. Here too is the story of how over the years symptoms and diagnoses have developed together to create fashions in illness and how treatments have succeeded or sometimes failed. Mad, Bad, and Sad takes us on a fascinating journey through the fragile, extraordinary human mind. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lisa AppignanesiPublisher: WW Norton & Co Imprint: WW Norton & Co Dimensions: Width: 16.30cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 24.40cm Weight: 0.884kg ISBN: 9780393066630ISBN 10: 0393066630 Pages: 560 Publication Date: 06 May 2008 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Inactive Availability: In Print Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationLisa 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |