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My Madness Saved Me: The Madness and Marriage of Virginia Woolf

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From: Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry
Date: 20061001
Author:Wynne, Louis

My Madness Saved Me: The Madness and Marriage of Virginia Woolf. Thomas Szasz. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2006, 154 pp., $29.95

As Sartre said, "The Jew is one whom other men consider a Jew; that is the simple truth from which we must start." Similarly, a mentally ill person is one whom others consider mentally ill; we deal here with the language of stigma, not the language of nosology.

Thomas Szasz

In My Madness Saved Me: The Madness and Marriage of Virginia Woolf, Thomas Szasz diverges from his usual approach to mental illness, which is a more or less abstract critique of ...

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