Overview
- A book that is suitable for a wide audience
- An in depth analysis of one of literature's leading and most loved individuals
- A unique insight into the mind
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Neuropsychiatry and Suicide
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NEUROPSYCHIATRY AND SUICIDE
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On Mental Illness
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ON MENTAL ILLNESS
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Reviews
“Maxwell Bennett’s Virginia Woolf and Neuropsychiatry is in some ways the least typical work on Woolf published in 2013, making a fitting departure point for this survey of a productively eclectic year in Woolf studies. … it is worth considering, particularly by anyone with a strong biographical interest in Woolf.” (Year’s Work in English Studies, Vol. 94 (1), 2015)
“The subject of this book’s investigation is Virginia Woolf. … The book arranges ten … disparate essays into three parts. … Bennett is an authoritative but amiable writer, and he conveys deep sensitivity towards his subject. … Bennett’s book can be read with profit by anyone with an interest in psychology, psychiatry, or neuroscience, and also by enthusiasts of Virginia Woolf … .” (Nick Haslam, Australian Book Review, April, 2013)"This book is a wonderful vehicle to bring us up to speed with neuropsychiatry & epigenetics advances. The examination, typology & historical development of the concept of soul, mind and consciousness is both very useful and neatly concise. I love the footnotes, like Oliver Sacks' they become delicious essays in themselves. Beautifully done." (Professor Alan Rosen,University of Sydney, Senior Consultant Psychiatrist and Deputy Commissioner, Mental Health Commission, NSW)
"Professor Bennett brings his immense neuroscientific knowledge and conceptual sophistication to bear upon the mental illness of one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century. His investigations of the psychiatric history of Virginia Woolf are based on extensive research into her medical record, familiarity with the state of medicine and treatment of the mentally ill in the first decades of the last century, and mastery of the latest findings of neuropsychiatry. This book will fascinate both students of psychiatry and lovers of the writings of Virginia Woolf." (P.M.S. Hacker, St John’s College,Oxford)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Virginia Woolf and Neuropsychiatry
Authors: Maxwell Bennett
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5748-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5747-9Published: 12 January 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9342-2Published: 08 February 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-5748-6Published: 12 January 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 214
Topics: Biomedicine general, Neurosciences, Neurobiology, Psychiatry, Popular Science in Medicine and Health, Psychoanalysis