Virginia Woolf and Neuropsychiatry
Springer, $40 hb, 232 pp, 9789400757479
Psychiatry
Virginia Woolf and Neuropsychiatry by Maxwell Bennett
by Nick Haslam •
An unsuspecting reader might guess that this book belongs to the disreputable genre of psychobiography. Beginning with Sigmund Freud’s analysis of Leonardo da Vinci (1910), which explored themes of unconscious homosexuality and maternal attachment, biographers have attempted to make sense of individual lives with the aid of psychological theory, most often of a psychoanalytic stripe.
Continue reading for only $10 per month. Subscribe and gain full access to Australian Book Review. Already a subscriber? Sign in. If you need assistance, feel free to contact us.