Lunacy, Madness, and Melancholy: Biographies of Mental Illness that Changed the World - Hardcover

by Debra L. Gary (Author)

Dr. Gary's easy to read biographical style explores the lives of a variety of historically significant people, each of whom has suffered some form of mental illness. The reader is taoally captivated by the unique insight into each individual. She ex plores their symptoms, their struggles, and identifies how their actions, driven by their mental disorder impacted the world. In simple and understandable language she explains each individual's mental disorder, which was often undected or misunderstood, and provides a probable twentieth first centuary psychiatric diagnosis.