Introduction: The talking cure -- Unrestful cure: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and "The yellow wallpaper" -- Tender is the night: Fitzgerald's A psychology for psychiatrists -- Religious conversion or therapy: the priestly psychiatrist in T.S. Eliot's The cocktail party -- "If writing is not an outlet, what is?": Sylvia Plath and The bell jar -- I never promised you a rose garden: the limits of the fictional psychiatric case study -- Doris Lessing's antipsychiatry -- Nabokov and the Viennese witch doctor -- Philip Roth's psychoanalysts -- Freud revisited: The white hotel.
