Voices from the Asylum

Description:

Straddling the disciplines of literature and social history, and based on extensive archival research, this book makes a crucial contribution to the feminist project of writing women back into literary history. It brings to light the hitherto unrecognised literary tradition in the prehistory of psychoanalysis: the psychiatric memoir.

subjects: Autobiography, women authors,  Psychiatric hospitals,  Hospital patients,  Women, mental health,  Women, france,  Autobiography,  Mental health,  History and criticism,  Psychiatric hospital patients,  French literature,  Women authors,  Mentally ill, Writings of the, French,  History,  Women,  Inpatients,  Autobiographies as Topic,  Psychology,  Psychisch kranke Frau,  Psychiatrische Klinik,  Patientin,  Autobiography as Topic,  Psychiatry in literature