Mad, bad and sad : a history of women and the mind doctors from 1800 to the present / Lisa Appignanesi.
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TextPublication details: London : Virago, 2008.Description: [ix], 540 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 9781844082339 (hbk.) :
- 1844082334 (hbk.) :
- 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 -- History
- Health and Wellbeing
- Psychology
- Gender studies: women & girls
- Psychiatry
- 616.890082 APP
- 616.890082 22
- RC451.4.W6
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Nursing Collection | 616.890082 APP (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 208198 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 512-520) and index.
PART 1: A Time Before:- 1. Mad and Bad--PART 2: The Rise and Rise of The New Science:- 2. Passions--3. Asylum--4. Nerves--5. Hysteria--6. Sleep--PART 3: The Century Turns:- 7. Sex--8. Schizophrenia--9. Disturbance of love--10. Mother and Child--11. Shrink for Life--PART 4: Into the Present:- 12. Rebels--13. Body Madness--14. Abuse--15. Drugs.
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.