Mad, Bad, and Sad: Women and the Mind Doctors by Lisa Appignanesi

Mad, Bad, and Sad: Women and the Mind Doctors

Lisa Appignanesi

560 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history psychology informative inspiring slow-paced

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This is the story of how we have understood extreme states of mind over the last two hundred years and how we conceive of them today, from the depression suffered by Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath to the mental anguish and addictions of iconic be...

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