Lisa Appignanesi Book order

'The small translucent bottle of shampoo outlived him. It was the kind you take home from hotels in distant places. For over a year it had sat on the shower shelf where he had left it. I looked at it every day.' After the death of her partner of thirty-two years, Lisa Appignanesi was thrust into a state striated by rage and superstition in which sanity felt elusive. The dead of prior generations loomed large and haunting. Then, too, the cultural and political moment seemed to collude with her condition: everywhere people were dislocated and angry. In this electrifying and brave examination of an ordinary enough death and its aftermath, Appignanesi uses all her evocative and analytic powers to scrutinize her own and our society's experience of grieving, the effects of loss and the potent, mythical space it occupies in our lives. With searing honesty, lashed by humour, she navigates us onto the terrain of childhood, the way it forms our feelings of love and hate, and steers us towards a less tumultuous version of the everyday. This book may be short, but life, death, madness, love, and grandchildren, are all there - seen through the eyes of a writer who is ever aware of the historical and current vagaries of woman's condition.

Using sensational public trials, in America, Britain and France, this book takes madness and passion into the courts and puts them on trial.

"Paris, 1990" on back cover should read: Paris, 1900.

The antidote to the idea that being a woman is all about submitting to desire. There are many more shades than that and here are fifty women to explore them.

Exploring the evolution of mental health understanding over two centuries, the narrative examines how perceptions of madness, badness, and sadness have shifted. Key figures, including notable women like Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath, are highlighted as both patients and therapists, revealing their significant impact on psychiatry. The author controversially suggests that while women have transformed mind-doctoring, they have also inadvertently brought attention to emerging patterns of mental illness, reflecting a complex interplay between gender and mental health.

Mad, bad and sad. From the depression suffered by Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath to the mental anguish and addictions of iconic beauties Zelda Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe. From Freud and Jung and the radical breakthroughs of psychoanalysis to Lacan's construction of a modern movement and the new women-centred therapies. This is the story of how we have understood mental disorders and extreme states of mind in women over the last two hundred years and how we conceive of them today, when more and more of our inner life and emotions have become a matter for medics and therapists.

Exploring the evolution of understanding extreme mental states over two centuries, the narrative delves into the experiences of notable women like Virginia Woolf and Marilyn Monroe, alongside historical figures like Freud and Jung. It highlights the intersection of women's mental health with societal perceptions, showcasing how symptoms and diagnoses have evolved, creating trends in illness. By examining personal stories and the development of therapies, the book offers a captivating insight into the complexities of the human mind and the treatment of mental anguish.

Simone de Beauvoir, a renowned writer and philosopher, gained prominence through her influential work "The Second Sex," which established her as a key figure in the Feminist movement. Despite her significant contributions to philosophy and literature, she often remained overshadowed by her partner, Jean-Paul Sartre. Her legacy continues to inspire discussions around gender and existentialism, highlighting her intellectual prowess and the impact of her ideas on contemporary feminist thought.

Bruno Lind is on a mission, though he may not know it. Irene Davies knows she is, but isn't sure it's the right one. Both of them are haunted by the legacy of a tangled history of love and war.

In a moving tale of oppression and courageous defiance, sixteen-year-old Latifa tells her story of growing up in war torn Afghanistan.