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Mad, bad and sad : a history of women and the mind doctors from 1800 to the present /
By: Appignanesi, Lisa.
Publisher: London : Virago, 2009Description: xii, 592 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781844082346 (pbk.); 9781844082346:; 1844082342 (pbk.).Subject(s): Women -- Mental health -- History -- 19th century | Women -- Mental health -- History -- 20th century | Psychiatry -- History -- 19th century | Psychiatry -- History -- 20th century | Mentally ill women -- Care -- History | Mentally ill women -- Public opinion -- History | Women -- Psychology -- Public opinion -- HistoryDDC classification: 616.89008209034 Summary: 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.| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliography and index.
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.