MAD,BAD AND SAD: WOMEN MIND DR by Lisa Appignanesi

Lisa Appignanesi is the author of several critically acclaimed and prizewinning books on the history of madness and mind-doctoring, on women and on Freud, including Mad, Bad and Sad, Freud's Women (with John Forrester),Trials of Passion and Simone de Beauvoir. She has also written fiction such as The Memory Man and the thrillers Dead of Winter and Sanctuary; and much cited memoir, Losing the Dead and most recently Everyday Madness: On Grief, Anger, Loss and Love. She has written for the New York Review of Books, The Guardian and The Observer. She is a former President of English PEN, chair of the Freud Museum, London, and the Royal Society of Literature.