Rosemary Dinnage
Rosemary Dinnage's books include The Ruffian on the Stair, One to One: Experiences of Psychotherapy, and Annie Besant.
From the Review
November 18, 2004: Lessons of the Master
Author, Author by David Lodge
November 6, 2003: In Love with Verdi
Verdi in the Age of Italian Romanticism by David R.B. Kimbell
The Man Verdi by Frank Walker
Verdi: A Biography by Mary Jane Phillips-Matz
April 11, 2002: 'The Illness of Ingrained Sorrow' (letter)
October 4, 2001: The Crack-Up
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon
Where the Roots Reach for Water: A Personal and Natural History of Melancholia by Jeffery Smith
The Nature of Melancholy: From Aristotle to Kristeva edited by Jennifer Radden
September 21, 2000: Lost World
Rodinsky's Room by Rachel Lichtenstein, by Iain Sinclair
April 13, 2000: 'Mad Travelers' (letter)
January 20, 2000: On the Road
Mad Travelers: Reflections on the Reality of Transient Mental Illnesses by Ian Hacking
June 10, 1999: Dreamer
Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834 by Richard Holmes
March 4, 1999: In the Dark Continent
Elegy for Iris by John Bayley
February 4, 1999: Good Grief
Kaddish by Leon Wieseltier
November 19, 1998: Doris Lessing's Double Life
Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949-1962 by Doris Lessing
April 9, 1998: So Alert with Love
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
February 19, 1998: Delightful Tears
Angels and Absences: Child Deaths in the Nineteenth Century by Laurence Lerner
August 14, 1997: Out of the Ruins
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
May 29, 1997: The Whirr of Wings
Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee
March 6, 1997: The Blasted Oak Tree
Augustus John: The New Biography by Michael Holroyd
Themes and Variations: The Drawings of Augustus John 1901-1931 with essays by Michael Holroyd, by Mark Evans, by Rebecca John
Portraits of Women: Gwen John & Her Forgotten Contemporaries by Alison Thomas
February 20, 1997: Rescuing R.D. Laing (letter)
December 19, 1996: Working with Laing (letter)
November 14, 1996: The Rise & Fall of a Half-Genius
The Wing of Madness: The Life and Work of R.D. Laing by Daniel Burston
Mad to be Normal: Conversations with R.D. Laing by Bob Mullan
June 20, 1996: The Survivor
Bettelheim: A Life and a Legacy by Nina Sutton, translated by David Sharp
February 15, 1996: Death's Gray Land
The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
Regeneration by Pat Barker
The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker
January 11, 1996: Melting into Air
The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco, translated from Italian by William Weaver
Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel García Márquez, translated from Spanish by Edith Grossman
June 22, 1995: The Wild Man
The Father: A Life of Henry James, Sr. by Alfred Habegger
April 6, 1995: Kicking the Myth Habit
The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes by Janet Malcolm
March 23, 1995: Night Thoughts
Night: Night Life, Night Language, Sleep, and Dreams by A. Alvarez
January 12, 1995: The Downhill Slope
The Afterlife and Other Stories by John Updike
A Private View by Anita Brookner
November 3, 1994: 'Soul Murder' (letter)
March 3, 1994: Grand Delusion
In Defense of Schreber: Soul Murder and Psychiatry by Zvi Lothane
February 17, 1994: Not an Anthropologist (letter)
December 16, 1993: Bringing Up Raja
All the Mothers Are One: Hindu India and the Cultural Reshaping of Psychoanalysis by Stanley N. Kurtz, foreword by S.J. Tambiah
April 8, 1993: The Scream Behind the Pattern
Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art by Maurice Tuchman, by Carol S. Eliel
Madness and Art: The Life and Works of Adolf Wölfli by Walter Morgenthaler, translated by Aaron H. Esman
December 21, 1989: The Good Doctor
Human Nature by D.W. Winnicott
October 12, 1989: White Magic
Persuasions of the Witch's Craft: Ritual Magic in Contemporary England by T.M. Luhrmann
June 1, 1989: Exiles
Latecomers by Anita Brookner
Baumgartner's Bombay by Anita Desai
October 8, 1987: Fanning the Gemlike Flame
Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Legend by Ernest Samuels, with the collaboration of Jayne Newcomer Samuels
June 25, 1987: Joys of Desolation
Stevie: A Biography of Stevie Smith by Jack Barbera, by William McBrien
April 23, 1987: Unguided Tour
Persian Nights by Diane Johnson
December 4, 1986: All in the Family
The Secret Trauma: Incest in the Lives of Girls and Women by Diana E.H. Russell
The Original Sin: Incest and Its Meaning by W. Arens
Forbidden Partners: The Incest Taboo in Modern Culture by James B. Twitchell
July 17, 1986: Dr. Right
Home Is Where We Start From: Essays by a Psychoanalyst by D.W. Winnicott, compiled and edited by Clare Winnicott, by Ray Shepherd, by Madeleine Davis
Holding and Interpretation: Fragment of an Analysis by D.W. Winnicott
May 8, 1986: Psycho-Mom
Melanie Klein: Her World and Her Work by Phyllis Grosskurth
Bloomsbury/Freud: The Letters of James and Alix Strachey, 1924–1925 edited by Perry Meisel, edited by Walter Kendrick
November 21, 1985: An Unfinished Man
Denton Welch: The Making of a Writer by Michael De-la-Noy
June 13, 1985: Traveling Light
Into the Heart of Borneo by Redmond O'Hanlon
To the Frontier by Geoffrey Moorhouse
Where Nights Are Longest: Travels by Car through Western Russia by Colin Thubron
December 20, 1984: The Ideal Husband
T.S. Eliot: A Life by Peter Ackroyd
November 8, 1984: The Last Act
The Diary of Virginia Woolf Volume 5, 1936–1941 edited by Anne Olivier Bell, assisted by Andrew McNeillie
August 16, 1984: Comic, Sad, Indefinite
A Very Private Eye: An Autobiography in Diaries and Letters by Barbara Pym, edited by Hazel Holt, by Hilary Pym
May 31, 1984: Twice-Born
Becoming William James by Howard M. Feinstein
December 22, 1983: The Madonna of Bloomsbury
Vanessa Bell by Frances Spalding
August 18, 1983: Thoughts on Thoughts
States of Mind by Jonathan Miller
February 17, 1983: Exorcist and Analyst
Shamans, Mystics and Doctors: A Psychological Inquiry into India and Its Healing Traditions by Sudhir Kakar
August 12, 1982: Staying the Course
The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
Harriet Hume: A London Fantasy by Rebecca West
The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West, 1911-1917 selected and introduced by Jane Marcus
1900 by Rebecca West
November 19, 1981: Going Crazy in India
January 22, 1981: A Family Romance
Alice James: A Biography by Jean Strouse
The Death and Letters of Alice James biographical essay, by selected correspondence edited, with a Ruth Bernard Yeazell
Henry James, Letters Volume III: 1883-1895 edited by Leon Edel
October 23, 1980: The Great Mystifier
The Harmonious Circle: The Lives and Work of G.I. Gurdjieff, P.D. Ouspensky, and Their Followers by James Webb
Gurdjieff and Mansfield by James Moore
Who Are You, Monsieur Gurdjieff? by René Zuber
April 17, 1980: Her Life as a Man
The Twyborn Affair by Patrick White
March 6, 1980: In the Shadow
Clementine Churchill: The Biography of a Marriage by Mary Soames
March 6, 1980: Men, Women, and Lit. (letter)
February 7, 1980: Regina Pinxit
Queen Victoria's Sketchbook by Marina Warner
December 20, 1979: Re-creating Eve
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination by Sandra M. Gilbert, by Susan Gubar
August 16, 1979: Dodgson's Passion
The Letters of Lewis Carroll Vol. I: 1837-1885 Vol. II: 1886-1898 edited by Morton N. Cohen, with the assistance of Roger Lancelyn Green
Lewis Carroll, Photographer of Children: Four Nude Studies by Morton N. Cohen
April 19, 1979: No Surrender
Surviving and Other Essays by Bruno Bettelheim
April 19, 1979: Anorexia (letter)
February 22, 1979: The Starved Self
The Golden Cage: The Enigma of Anorexia Nervosa by Hilde Bruch
The Best Little Girl in the World by Steven Levenkron
Self-Starvation: From Individual to Family Therapy in the Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa by Mara Selvini Palazzoli
Psychosomatic Families: Anorexia Nervosa in Context by Salvador Minuchin, by Bernice L. Rosman, by Lester Baker
February 8, 1979: The Corruption of Love
The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
Praxis by Fay Weldon
December 21, 1978: The Piaget Way
The Essential Piaget edited by Howard E. Gruber, edited by J. Jacques Vonèche
The Origins of Intelligence in Children by Jean Piaget, translated by Margaret Cook
The Construction of Reality in the Child by Jean Piaget, translated by Margaret Cook
Play, Dreams and Imitation in Childhood by Jean Piaget, translated by C. Gattegno, by F.M. Hodgson
Behavior and Evolution by Jean Piaget, translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith
Jean Piaget: The Man and His Ideas by Richard I. Evans, translated by Eleanor Duckworth
Jean Piaget: Psychologist of the Real by Brian Rotman
Children's Minds by Margaret Donaldson
October 26, 1978: Downtown
The Child in the City by Colin Ward
September 28, 1978: Before Her Time
Stories by Doris Lessing
June 29, 1978: Throwaways
Infanticide by Maria W. Piers
May 4, 1978: Gothic Sibyl
Silence Will Speak: A Study of the Life of Denys Finch Hatton and His Relationship with Karen Blixen by Errol Trzebinski
Isak Dinesen's Art: The Gayety of Vision by Robert Langbaum
The Angelic Avengers by Isak Dinesen
Carnival: Entertainments and Posthumous Tales by Isak Dinesen
November 10, 1977: The Radiant Monster
Passionate Crusader: The Life of Marie Stopes by Ruth Hall
August 5, 1976: Over the Edge
The Facts of Life by R.D. Laing
Anna by David Reed
April 15, 1976: Jung and God
C.G. Jung: Letters Volume 2 1951-1961 selected and edited by Gerhard Adler, in collaboration with Aniela Jaffé, translated by R.F.C. Hull
C.G. Jung: His Myth in Our Time by Marie-Louise von Franz, translated by William H. Kennedy
Jung and the Story of Our Time by Laurens van der Post
Jung on Elementary Psychology: A Discussion Between C.G. Jung and Richard Evans by C.G. Jung, by Richard Evans
July 17, 1975: In the Disintegrating City
The Memoirs of a Survivor by Doris Lessing
The Grass Is Singing by Doris Lessing
From New York Review Books
 | Alone! Alone! In the course of over thirty years of writing about psychology, child development, biography, and fiction, Rosemary Dinnage has encountered a variety of outstanding women, all of whom, in one way or another, felt powerfully alone. |
 | Alone! Alone! In the course of over thirty years of writing about psychology, child development, biography, and fiction, Rosemary Dinnage has encountered a variety of outstanding women, all of whom, in one way or another, felt powerfully alone. |
 | Memoirs of My Nervous Illness The wonderful Schreber . . . ought to have been made a professor of psychiatry and director of a mental hospital.—Sigmund Freud |
Books by Rosemary Dinnage
The Ruffian on the Stair: Reflections on Death (1990)
Annie Besant (1986)
The Handicapped Child: Research Review (1970)