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Mad, bad and sad : women and the mind doctors  Cover Image Book Book

Mad, bad and sad : women and the mind doctors / Lisa Appignanesi.

Appignanesi, Lisa. (Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780393066630 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 0393066630 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 535 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First American edition.
  • Publisher: New York : W. W. Norton & Co., 2008.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Originally published: Sad, mad, and bad : women and the mind-doctors from 1800. Canada, 2007.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [512]-520) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
PART ONE: Mad and bad
PART TWO: Passions -- Asylum -- Nerves -- Hysteria -- Sleep
PART THREE: Sex -- Schizophrenia -- Disturbances of love -- Mother and child -- Shrink for life
PART FOUR: Rebels -- Body madness -- Abuse -- Drugs.
Subject: Women > Mental health > History.
Women > Mental health services > History.
Mentally ill women > Rehabilitation > History.
Mental illness > Treatment > History.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Lehigh Valley Library System.

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Allentown Public Library 616.89 APPI (Text) 34455005221300 Adult Nonfiction 1st FL Available -


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