Mad, bad and sad : a history of women and the mind doctors from 1800 to the present
Appignanesi, Lisa2008
Book
From Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath to Zelda Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe, from Freud and Jung to Lacan and women-centred therapies, this is the story of how we have understood extreme states of mind over the last 200 years and how we conceive of them today.
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Author:
Imprint:
London : Virago, 2008.
Collation:
[ix], 540 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 512-520) and index.
ISBN:
9781844082339 (hbk)
Dewey class:
616.89008209034A616.890082
Language:
English
Subject:
Women -- Mental health -- History -- 19th centuryWomen -- Mental health -- History -- 20th centuryPsychiatry -- History -- 19th centuryPsychiatry -- History -- 20th centuryMentally ill women -- Care -- HistoryMentally ill women -- Public opinion -- HistoryWomen -- Psychology -- Public opinion -- History
BRN:
27820