Mad, Bad, and Sad - by Lisa Appignanesi (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This brave and brilliantly researched intellectual history chronicles the relationship between women and mental illness since 1800, taking readers on a fascinating journey through the fragile, extraordinary human mind. 5 illustrations.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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."<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Ambitious . . . brilliant . . . a powerhouse of a book.--Daphne Merkin "New York Sun"<br><br>Fascinating. . . . A meticulous and exhaustive account.--Kathryn Harrison "New York Times Book Review"<br><br>Sophisticated, vigorously written, full of striking subtexts . . .an entertaining and well-researched book that avoids easy answers.--Andrew Scull "Times Literary Supplement"<br>
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