Lisa Appignanesi

I’m a Visiting Professor in Medical Humanities at King’s College London. I’ve written books on anger, on love and trials of passions, and on women.

I’m fascinated by the subject of emotions: extreme emotions, madness, Freud, the therapeutic and psychiatric professions.

Publications

Appignanesi, L. (2018). Everyday Madness: On Grief, Anger, Loss and Love. Fourth Estate.
Appignanesi, L. (2009). Mad, Bad and Sad: Women and the Mind Doctors. Virago.
Appignanesi, L., & Forrester, J. (2005). Freud’s Women. W. W. Norton & Company.
Appignanesi, L. (2014). Trials of Passion: Crimes in the Name of Love and Madness. Virago Press Ltd.
Appignanesi, L. (2013). Losing the Dead. Virago Modern Classics.
Appignanesi, L. (2012). All About Love: Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion. Virago.

Everyday Madness: On Grief, Anger, Loss and Love

Trials of Passion: Crimes in the Name of Love and Madness

Fifty Shades of Feminism

Mad, Bad and Sad: Women and the Mind Doctors