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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."

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Psychology

• Full title: Mad, Bad and Sad
• Author: Lisa Appignanesi
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 554
• EAN: 9780393335439
• ISBN: 0393335437
• ID: 04604645
• Publisher: W W NORTON & CO
• Weight: 751 g
• Dimensions: 210 × 140 × 33 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. August 2009

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