TRIALS OF PASSION: IN THE NAME OF LOVE AND MADNESS
Book ID/图书代码： 00200013B65103
English Summary/英文概要： What is criminal, what sane, what mad or simply bad?
Through court and asylum records, letters and newspapers accounts, this book brings to life key trials of the last decades of the 19th century and the first of the 20th, a period when the psychiatric professions were consolidating their hold on our understanding of the human psyche. In Brighton in 1870, the ‘Chocolate Cream Poisoner’ – ‘refined, tall, fair, a lady of fortune and extremely prepossessing in manner’ unleashes an escalating campaign of poisoning. What has led her to such vengeful acts?
In Paris in 1880, the thirty-one-year-old singer Marie Bière’s crime fills the papers for months. Disguised by a wide brimmed hat and lorgnon, she stalked her betraying lover through the streets of Paris until she shot him, wounding but not murdering him as planned. When the jury acquits her, it seems to be an act of popular will. But what feeds into the shaping of this liberal verdict?
In New York on a hot night in 1906, millionaire Harry K. Thaw shoots the famous architect Stanford White dead in full view of an audience at Madison Square Garden. Embroiled in a crime of passion, Thaw’s act throws light on the place women play in the murdering imagination – and in the public perception of guilt and madness.
With great storytelling flair and a wealth of historical detail, Lisa Appignanesi teases out the vagaries of passion and the clashes between the court and the clinic as they stumble towards a sometimes reviled collaboration.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 何为犯罪，何为正常，何为疯癫，又何为邪恶？
庭上与精神病院的记录，信件与报纸评论，本书将为我们鲜活地呈现19世纪末和20世纪初数十年间的主要重大审讯事件，之所以选择这段时期是因为此间的精神病行业的发展正不断巩固和加强我们对于人类心理的理解。1870年的布莱顿，著名的“巧克力奶油犯”---“优雅、高挑、美好，富有且举手投足间魅力十足的女性”使得毒药的使用战争不断升级。又到底是什么使得她作出如此仇恨的举动？
1880年，巴黎，年仅31岁的单身女性玛丽•比耶和的罪行则占据各大报纸头条版块长达数月之久。她用一顶宽边帽和一副眼镜作为伪装，在巴黎的街道上一路尾随背叛她的情人，她射伤了他，却没有如计划一边置之死地。当陪审团宣告其无罪释放，这似乎是一种顺乎民意的举动。然而又是什么导致陪审团做出了如此慷慨大度的判决呢？
1906年，纽约，百万富翁哈利•K•肖在麦迪逊花园广场之上当众射杀了著名的建筑家斯坦福•怀特。肖的犯罪动机是复杂的，他的行为使得我们不由得思考在犯罪想象中女性的地位究竟如何---且公众对于其愧疚和疯狂举措的认知又如何？
丽莎•阿皮格纳勒西用她卓越的叙述天赋和丰富的历史史料为我们呈现出了种种激情的奇妙之处，以及当庭审和临床治疗在相互配合的过程中携手前进时总会存在的冲突之处。(DC)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 丽莎•阿皮格纳勒西出生于波兰，她从小在法国和加拿大长大。她不仅是一名小说家、作家，还是伦敦国王学院文学和医疗人性学的客座教授，弗洛伊德博物馆馆长以及前PEN主席。她曾因其文学贡献而获得2013年OBE奖。她著有《疯》《糟糕与悲伤》《爱之种种》以及《死亡遗失》。Lisa Appignanesi was born in Poland and grew up in France and Canada. A novelist and writer, she is Visiting Professor of Literature and the Medical Humanities at King’s College London, Chair of the Freud Museum, and former President of PEN. She was awarded an OBE for services to Literature in 2013. She is the author of Mad, Bad and Sad, All About Love and Losing the Dead.
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