This edition is enriched with materials that have become more accessible in the post-Soviet era.

This is the moving story of the Jews who survived outside the camps, but it is also the author's own voyage of self-discovery - a family memoir of the rites of passage of emigration, childhood, and growing up an outsider in a closed ...

Through court and asylum records, letters and newspaper accounts, this book brings to life some sensational trials between 1870 and 1914, a period when the psychiatric professions were consolidating their hold on our understanding of what ...

Exploding misconceptions and bringing new theories to light, this is a startling work from an acclaimed novelist and writer.

Lisa Appignanesi, prize-winning author of MAD, BAD AND SAD, turns her unrivalled attention now to love, that most fascinating of emotions Unruly, unpredictable, love is a maddening deity.

An intriguing, compulsive romantic thriller from the highly acclaimed author of A Good Woman and Memory and Desire.

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 ...

In this volume, fifty women young and old - writers, politicians, actors, scientists, mothers - reflect on the shades that inspired them and what being woman means to them today.

The two authors divided their project, Forrester dealing with women known primarily through Freud's eyes--his family, dreams and patients, and ideas on femininity--Appignanesi writing about the first women analysts, translators, and writers ...

A deranged assassin has gunned down fourteen women students in Montreal.