"An insightful and eloquent look at how love shapes our lives and our culture."--P. [2] of dust jacket.
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"An insightful and eloquent look at how love shapes our lives and our culture."--Page [2] of dust jacket.
"An insightful and eloquent look at how love shapes our lives and our culture."--Page [2] of dust jacket.
"In this fascinating history of mind doctors and their patients, of diagnoses and symptoms, acclaimed writer Lisa Appignanesi probes the ways in which madness, badness, and sadness have been understood over the last two centuries and into our own by philosophers, psychological t…
From Mary Lamb, sister of Charles, who in the throes of a nervous breakdown turned on her mother with a kitchen knife, to Freud, Jung, and Lacan, who developed the new women-centered therapies, Lisa Appignanesi's research traces how more and more of the inner lives and emotions …
"Using sensational crimes committed in America, Britain, and France, this dramatic narrative takes madness and passion into the courts and puts these provocative themes on trial"--
"With great storytelling flair and a wealth of historical detail, Lisa Appignanesi teases out the vagaries of passion and the clashes between the law and the clinic as they stumble toward a collaboration."-jacket flap.