Lisa Appignanesi Libri

"Paris, 1990" on back cover should read: Paris, 1900.

"Freud's Women examines biography, case history, dreams, correspondence, journals, and theory to chart Freud's views on femininity. It also tells the many stories of Freud's women and explores their influence on him and his on them: dutiful daughter Anna, who carried on his work; the novelist and turn-of-the-century femme fatale, Lou Salome; Marie Bonaparte, who mixed royalty and perversity with effortless ease and became the head of the French psychoanalytic movement; the early hysterics who were the cornerstone of psychoanalysis--all these and more emerge vividly from the pages of this important study as it assesses Freud's contemporary legacy." -- Publisher

Using sensational public trials, in America, Britain and France, this book takes madness and passion into the courts and puts them on trial.

Maria d'Este is effortlessly beautiful. Her seductive power has attracted men and worldly success in equal measure. In ordinary women's lives, she is the dreaded "other woman". But now Maria has to face the destructive side of her allure and begins to realize the price is too high.

The antidote to the idea that being a woman is all about submitting to desire. There are many more shades than that and here are fifty women to explore them.

In a moving tale of oppression and courageous defiance, sixteen-year-old Latifa tells her story of growing up in war torn Afghanistan.

Simone de Beauvoir, a renowned writer and philosopher, gained prominence through her influential work "The Second Sex," which established her as a key figure in the Feminist movement. Despite her significant contributions to philosophy and literature, she often remained overshadowed by her partner, Jean-Paul Sartre. Her legacy continues to inspire discussions around gender and existentialism, highlighting her intellectual prowess and the impact of her ideas on contemporary feminist thought.

Mad, bad and sad. From the depression suffered by Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath to the mental anguish and addictions of iconic beauties Zelda Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe. From Freud and Jung and the radical breakthroughs of psychoanalysis to Lacan's construction of a modern movement and the new women-centred therapies. 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 medics and therapists.

In autumn 1934, Dr Jacob Jardine glimpses a figure from his deepest imaginings - Sylvie Kowalska. Despite himself he is drawn into a troubled erotic world in which the past haunts the present.

Lisa Appignanesi was born Elsbieta Borenztejn in Poland. Unlike other holocaust memoirs, hers is the story of how the nucleus of a family survived outside the camps, beyond the ghetto and eventually made it to the new world, where Lisa's mother found that her years of masquerading as an Aryan stood her in great stead in anti-semitic post-war Catholic Quebec. As her mother's memory fails, Lisa finds her self trying to unravel the truth about her family, searching not only for signs of her mother's lost brother - a Jewish Schindler character, making money and saving Jews in Warsaw - but also for the truth about how her parents managed to survive, and for her own birth certificate. It's above all the compelling story of one woman's determination not to go under, and the story of her father, who learned to make himself invisible and hide behind silent rage. This is a remarkable tale of terror, courage, deprivation, persecution, survival, and Jewish family life.