Description: Unlike the `textbook' description of mental illness, discusses an earlier tradition that led psychiatrists to turn to Shakespeare's plays for such models as Ophelia and Lear, to help them understand the madness observed in their patients.
Review Quotes: "Both literate and humane . . . the plays are used to illustrate a pre-existing psychodynamic theory of mental illness which may provide valuable insight for psychotherapists."
-"British Journal of Psychotherapy
"I like the humility in this book--it is invitational and sets in motion ideas and associations that continue into the reader's own frame of reference."
-Sue Jennings