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Mad, Bad, and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors
Mad, Bad, and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors | Lisa Appignanesi
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[A work of] wit, wisdom and richness. . . . A grand tour of derangement, from matricide to anorexia. John Leonard, Harpers 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 patientsamong them Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, and Marilyn Monroeand 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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Leftcoastzen
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#spinepoetry #riotgrams
Be not content,we are everywhere
Over all the obscene boundaries,
the holy barbarians,a devil in paradise,
Mad,bad and sad.

TheKidUpstairs 👏👏👏 6y
vivastory Well done! 👏🤘 6y
Suet624 Fantastic. 6y
CarolynM 👏👏👏Better than some published poetry I've read 6y
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youneverarrived
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#startswithmno non-fiction books. On Being Blue and Nothing to Envy are on my #tbr #jubilantjuly

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This #Recommendsday, I'd like to tell you guys about this fascinating work of nonfiction. It's an examination of mind doctor and their patients and the understanding of madness, badness, and sadness re: women's mental health over the course of the last two centuries. Appignanesi makes some interesting/controversial hypotheses of how women have shaped the nature of treating MH (as doctors and patients).

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