![]() ![]() ![]() They are not just mad they are also creative, kind, funny and human in the full sense of the world. By using the biographies of well known women Appignanesi is able to show that women suffering from mental illness are more than their diagnosis. Too often in discussions about mental illness people become a list of symptoms. This is no small ambition but the resulting book is serious, well researched, fascinating and above all humane.Īppignanesi uses the biographies of well known women, including writer Mary Lamb, French revolutionary Theroigne de Mericourt, Alice James (sister of Henry and William), Virginia Woolf, Sabina Spielrein (Jung’s patient, lover and early analyst), Sylvia Plath and Marilyn Monroe. In Mad, Bad and Sad Lisa Appignanesi sets out to describe the relationship between psychiatry and women over the last 200 years. ![]()
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