Mad, Bad And Sad: A History Of Women And The Mind Doctors From 1800 by Lisa Appignanesi

Mad, Bad And Sad: A History Of Women And The Mind Doctors From 1800

Lisa Appignanesi

540 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history psychology informative inspiring slow-paced

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From the depression suffered by Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath to the mental anguish and addictions of iconic beauties Zelda Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe. From Theroigne de Mericourt, Fury of the Gironde, who descended from the bloody triumphs o...

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