Mad, Bad and Sad - A History of Women and the Mind Doctors From 1800 to the Present

Lisa Appignanesi

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....