Mad, Bad And Sad - A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present (Paperback, Digital original)

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.

General

Imprint:	Virago Press Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2017
Authors:	Lisa Appignanesi
Dimensions:	198 x 126 x 39mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	592
Edition:	Digital original
ISBN-13:	978-1-84408-234-6
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	1-84408-234-2
Barcode:	9781844082346

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