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Books by Lisa Appignanesi
  | | All About Love Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion by Lisa Appignanesi, John Larison Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 2011 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-06945-7, ISBN: 0-393-06945-1 "An intimate and illuminating look at how love shapes our culture and our lives. Unruly, unpredictable—love is a maddening deity. In this insightful and eloquent meditation on that many-splendored thing, Lisa Appignanesi draws together psychology, literature, popular culture, and her own experiences in order to tangle with love's paradoxes across the span of our lives. Beginning with the rose-tinted raptures of first love, she proceeds t ..." |
 | | Everyday Madness On Grief, Anger, Loss and Love by Lisa Appignanesi Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2019 by Fourth Estate ISBN-13: 978-0-00-830033-3, ISBN: 0-00-830033-X "‘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 ..." |
 | | Everyday Madness On Grief, Anger, Loss and Love by Lisa Appignanesi Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2018 by Fourth Estate Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-00-830030-2, ISBN: 0-00-830030-5 "'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 ..." |
 | | Mad, Bad, and Sad(1st Edition) A History of Women and the Mind Doctors by Lisa Appignanesi Paperback, 560 Pages, Published 2009 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-33543-9, ISBN: 0-393-33543-7 "“[A work of] wit, wisdom and richness. . . . A grand tour of derangement, from matricide to anorexia.” —John Leonard, Harper’sThis fascinating history of mind doctors and their patients probes the ways in which madness, badness, and sadness have been understood over the last two centuries. Lisa Appignanesi charts a story from the days when the mad were considered possessed to our own century when the official psychiatric manual l ..." |
 | | Paris Requiem by Lisa Appignanesi, Appognanesi Lisa, Paris Requiem Paperback, 506 Pages, Published 2014 by Arcadia Books ISBN-13: 978-1-908129-99-4, ISBN: 1-908129-99-9 "Paris, 1899. The city is electric with excitement. Preparations for the universal exhibition and the dawn of a new century have hit fever pitch. But the sensual spectacle of the belle epoque is overshadowed by racial and social tensions, as the Dreyfus affair unleashes a riotous surge of anti-Semitism into its midst enters James Norton, an American charged with bringing home his brother Raf and their high-spirited sister Ellie. When the ..." |
 | | Freud's Women(Updated) Family, Patients, Followers by Lisa Appignanesi, John Forrester Hardcover, 576 Pages, Published 1993 by Basic Books ISBN-13: 978-0-465-02563-3, ISBN: 0-465-02563-3 "First published in 1992, Freud's Women quickly established itself as an invaluable study of the women who peopled Freud's world--women who, as relatives and friends, patients and disciples, helped him to found the new discipline of psychoanalysis. Lisa Appignanesi and John Forrester tell a fascinating and complicated story with great flair: Freud's Women is as scholarly as it is readable, moving between biography and theory to chart the ..." |
 | | Freud and Psychoanalysis Six Introductory Lectures : by Lisa Appignanesi, John Forrester Paperback, Published 2023 by Polity Press ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-5812-4, ISBN: 1-5095-5812-8 "Freud and Psychoanalysis takes us from Vienna to London, from Paris to New York and Hollywood, from the lab to the couch, to the campus, to film and to literature. This is a slim book that packs a big punch." |
 | | Simone de Beauvoir(Updated) (Life & Times S.) by Lisa Appignanesi Paperback, 182 Pages, Published 2005 by Haus Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-904950-09-7, ISBN: 1-904950-09-4 "Born in 1908, Simone de Beauvoir was a brilliant scholar and novelist, leading member of the existentialist movement and a committed socialist and feminist. Raised in a stiflingly respectable envitonment, as a young woman she totally rejected her parents' values and embarked on her literary career. With Jean-Paul Sartre she formed a unique relationship, which she described as 'The one undoubted success in my life'. Later in life she was ..." |
 | | Sanctuary by Lisa Appignanesi Paperback, 493 Pages, Published 2003 by Mcarthur & Company ISBN-13: 978-1-55278-187-6, ISBN: 1-55278-187-9 "As in her last thriller, Ms.Appignanesi has a way of torquing up the tension..Just like the proverbial shoe waiting to drop―on whom and when is the question.―The Ottawa Citizen" |
 | | Losing the dead(1st Edition) by Lisa Appignanesi Hardcover, 232 Pages, Published 1999 by Mcarthur & Co ISBN-13: 978-1-55278-091-6, ISBN: 1-55278-091-0 "As her mother slipped into the darkness of old age, Lisa Appignanesi began to realise how little she knew of the reality behind the tales she had heard since childhood. She had shunned her parents' stories of war-time Poland, but now she set out to find the truth. In her quest she flew to Warsaw - imagining and revisiting a past she never knew.This is the moving story of the Jews who survived outside the camps, but it is also the author ..." |
 | | Dreams of Innocence by Lisa Appignanesi Paperback, 608 Pages, Published 1996 by Onyx ISBN-13: 978-0-451-18247-0, ISBN: 0-451-18247-2 "Journeying to Europe in search of her lost love, journalist Helena Latimer discovers the diary of a woman who witnessed the brutality of the two world wars and learns a special truth from the writings. Reprint. K. " |
 | | Trials of Passion Crimes in the Name of Love and Madness (Paperback) by Lisa Appignanesi Paperback, Published 2016 by Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom ISBN-13: 978-1-84408-875-1, ISBN: 1-84408-875-8 |
 | | Trials of Passion(1st Edition) Crimes Committed in the Name of Love and Madness by Lisa Appignanesi Hardcover, 448 Pages, Published 2015 by Pegasus Books ISBN-13: 978-1-60598-814-6, ISBN: 1-60598-814-6 "Using sensational crimes committed in America, Britain, and France, this dramatic narrative takes madness and passion into the courts and puts these provocative themes on trial. A journey into the heart of dark passions and the crimes they impel, and their trial by daylight and doctors. When passion is in the picture, what is criminal, what is sane, what is mad or simply bad? Through court and asylum records, letters and newspaper accou ..." |
 | | All about Love Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion by Lisa Appignanesi Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2012 by Virago Press (Uk) International Edition ISBN-13: 978-1-84408-591-0, ISBN: 1-84408-591-0 "Unruly, unpredictable, love is a maddening deity. In this insightful and eloquent meditation on that many-splendored thing, Lisa Appignanesi draws on history, philosophy, psychology, literature, popular culture, and her own experience in order to tangle with love's paradoxes through the span of our lives. Beginning with the rose-tinted raptures of first love, she proceeds to love in marriage, the passions of triangulated love, jealousy ..." |
 | | The Dead Of Winter by Lisa Appignanesi Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2000 by Bantam Press ISBN-13: 978-0-593-04396-7, ISBN: 0-593-04396-0 |
 | | Losing the Dead - A Family Memoir(1st Edition) by Lisa Appignanesi Hardcover, 232 Pages, Published 1999 by Chatto & Windus ISBN-13: 978-0-7011-6854-4, ISBN: 0-7011-6854-4 "After a lifetime spent steadfastly ignoring her parents' accounts of their struggle for survival in World War II Poland, novelist Lisa Appignanesi played the "ultimate generation game" as her mother's increasing old age impelled her to discover the truth about her family's past. Growing up as part of an immigrant Jewish family in Canada, she had recoiled at "the implicit message...that you could live through terrible things and com ..." |
 | | Freud's women by Lisa Appignanesi, John Forrester Hardcover, 608 Pages, Published 1992 by Weidenfeld And Nicolson ISBN-13: 978-0-297-81244-9, ISBN: 0-297-81244-0 "First published in 1992, Freud's Women quickly established itself as an invaluable study of the women who peopled Freud's world--women who, as relatives and friends, patients and disciples, helped him to found the new discipline of psychoanalysis. Lisa Appignanesi and John Forrester tell a fascinating and complicated story with great flair: Freud's Women is as scholarly as it is readable, moving between biography and theory to chart the ..." |
 | | Fifty Shades of Feminism(Reprint) by Lisa Appignanesi, Rachel Holmes, Susie Orbach Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2017 by Virago ISBN-13: 978-0-349-00844-8, ISBN: 0-349-00844-2 "Half a century after the publication of The Feminine Mystique, have women really exchanged purity and maternity to become desiring machines inspired only by variations of sex, shopping and masochism - all coloured a brilliant neuro-pink?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. Contributors include: Ma ..." |
 | | The Madwoman in the Attic The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Veritas Paperbacks) by Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar, Lisa Appignanesi Paperback, 784 Pages, Published 2020 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-24672-8, ISBN: 0-300-24672-2 "a kind of tapestry that fully illustrates the etymological roots of the Latin texere, to weave. More, her web is very much like the fretwork or paperhanging in which every form can be found, “from Jupiter to Judy, if you only look with creative ..." |
 | | The Cabaret(Updated) by Lisa Appignanesi Hardcover, 276 Pages, Published 2004 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-10580-3, ISBN: 0-300-10580-0 "This captivating book presents a uniquely comprehensive cultural history of cabaret, where the most radical of artists, poets, writers, musicians, and theater directors have gathered since 1881. Lisa Appignanesi takes us to the original cabaretthe smoke-filled rooms of the Chat Noir in Paris that served as a meeting place for the avant-garde and a laboratory of subversion against the establishment. She then follows the journey of the c ..." |
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