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My Madness Saved Me The Madness and Marriage of Virginia Woolf
By Thomas Szasz
Copyright 2006
176 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
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The vast literature on Virginia Woolf's life, work, and marriage falls into two groups. A large majority is certain that she was mentally ill, and a small minority is equally certain that she was not mentally ill but was misdiagnosed by psychiatrists. In this daring exploration of Woolf's life and work, Thomas Szasz--famed for his radical critique of psychiatric concepts, coercions, and... Read more
Chronology, Dramatis Personae, Abbreviations, Preface, 1. “Whatever we are to call it”, 2. “In the head you know”, 3. “He shut people up”, 4. “My madness saved me”, 5. “A screwed up shrunk very old man”, 6. “He will go on, better without me”, 7. “He’s got a finger in my mind”, Appendix I: Virginia Woolf, Mad Genius, Appendix II: The Mad Genius Problem, Notes, Bibliography, Acknowledgments, Index
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Thomas Szasz
