'It is encouraging to finally see a serious study on women Surrealist artists and mental health and illness, an intersection overdue for scholarly exploration. A triumph and an absolute necessity'
Amanda Cachia, University of Houston

Preface – Katharine Conley
Introduction – Jenny Anger

Part I: Framing mental illness
1 s/M: Nadja – Abigail Susik
2 To the edge of madness: The Immaculate Conception – Effie Rentzou

Part II: Transitions
3 “My stomach was the mirror of the earth”: an ecofeminist reading of Leonora Carrington’s memoir of illness, Down Below – Alessia Zinnari
4 Artistry through emotional anguish: Ángeles Santos and her painting– Irene Barreno García and Carmen Gaitán Salinas

Part III: Gender play
5 Meret Oppenheim: from the rule of men to the crisis of women – Lee Colón
6 Frida Kahlo: surrealism, suffering, and the female experience – Brittney Romagna
7 Claude Cahun as anachronism – Christy Wampole

Part IV: Living with psychosis
8 Sonja Sekula: surrealism and schizophrenia – Jenny Anger
9 Rethinking narratives of illness in Unica Zürn’s Oeuvre and Reception – Esra Plümer Bardak
10 Zoobiologie: gender and psychic suffering in Unica Zürn’s human-animal drawings – Arantxa Romero González

Epilogue: Problematic mentalities: these surrealist women artists – Mary Ann Caws