** 'Informative in startling ways, and never dull in the academic way, Appignanesi's genuinely new History of the Mind Doctors is a subtle and accessible account of that perhaps most daunting of modern relationships, the one between the Mind Doctor and his female patient. intelligent and academically rigorous ( OBSERVER) The triumph of MAD, BAD AND SAD is to mix evocative case studies with potted histories of the great and good of psychology and psychiatry. At last! A serious, well-researched book on this important subject ( Pamela Stephenson) One of the great strengths of this book is the way in which it charts the uncanny relationship between fashions in psychiatric theory and sufferers' symptoms ( SUNDAY TIMES) In a league far above any other book of its kind on this topic ( SUNDAY BUSINESS POST) A tantalising mix of polemic and history, of ideology and fact.
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