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A review by phoebejeziel
Mad, Bad, and Sad: Women and the Mind Doctors by Lisa Appignanesi
2.0
-Rated a 2.5-
I had to pick this one up because I work as a teaching assistant for an undergraduate course.
This has a lot of good information and has very interesting topics that discuss the history of psychology and its relation to many of the women who were studied and therefore, the foundation of much of what psychology stands for today.
Personally, this was a very difficult book for me to get through. The information felt overwhelming and sometimes I didn't even know what I was reading. There was also no information on people of color, which I suppose can be attributed to the fact that people of color probably weren't studied for psychology? There were some pretty interesting famous individuals featured though, which was pretty cool (such as Zelda Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe).
Just wasn't really my book, though I know this is one I'm going to have to be revisitng in the future in order to grade those assignments haha.
I had to pick this one up because I work as a teaching assistant for an undergraduate course.
This has a lot of good information and has very interesting topics that discuss the history of psychology and its relation to many of the women who were studied and therefore, the foundation of much of what psychology stands for today.
Personally, this was a very difficult book for me to get through. The information felt overwhelming and sometimes I didn't even know what I was reading. There was also no information on people of color, which I suppose can be attributed to the fact that people of color probably weren't studied for psychology? There were some pretty interesting famous individuals featured though, which was pretty cool (such as Zelda Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe).
Just wasn't really my book, though I know this is one I'm going to have to be revisitng in the future in order to grade those assignments haha.