Author: Appignanesi, Lisa,
Publication year: 2014
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 9781844088744 (hbk.) :
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Extent: 434 pages ; 24 cm
Description: When passion is in the picture, what is criminal, what sane, what mad or simply bad? Through court and asylum records, letters and newspaper accounts, this book brings to life a period when the psychiatric professions were consolidating their hold on our understanding of what is human.