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Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors
by Lisa Appignanesi
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A sweeping account of how women's minds have been described, diagnosed and treated over two centuries, moving from asylum wards and consulting rooms in Paris and Vienna to twentieth-century clinics and cultural battlegrounds. Patients, writers and performers appear alongside the doctors who examined them, and familiar labels such as hysteria, melancholia and madness are shown shifting with fashion, class and power. The tone is curious and argumentative rather than clinical, building its case through vivid individual lives while questioning who gets to define illness. It offers a knowledge-rich history of psychiatry and psychotherapy told with narrative momentum and a strong sense of era and atmosphere.
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