What does a woman want? Sigmund Freud’s famous question put to Princess Marie Bonaparte, patient, friend, analyst and the moving force behind Freud’s flight from Nazi Vienna to his final home in London, now the Freud Museum.

Inspired by Lisa Appignanesi’s acclaimed book, Mad, Bad and Sad: Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present, the exhibition highlights the experience of women and their relationship to those who confined, cared for and listened to them.

Through intimate and revealing portraits, including Dali’s Freud, shown alongside original documents and artefacts, the exhibition traces key moments in the history of ‘female maladies’ and counterpoints them with women’s boldly inventive art today.

The Women: Mary Lamb, Theroigne de Méricourt, Alice James, Anna O (Bertha Pappenheim), Dora (Ida Bauer), Augustine, Elizabeth Severn, Bryher, H.D (Hilda Doolittle), Princess Marie Bonaparte, Anna Freud, Dorothy Burlingham, Virginia Woolf, Marilyn Monroe, Sylvia Plath and Anna Kavan.

The Mind Doctors: Philippe Pinel, Jean Etienne Esquirol, Jean Martin Charcot, Alexander Morison, William James, Havelock Ellis, Josef Breuer, Sigmund Freud, Lou Andreas Salome, Sandor Ferenczi, Hanns Sachs, Princess Marie Bonaparte, Anna Freud, Dorothy Burlingham, Melanie Klein, Ruth Beuscher and Marianne Kris.

Works by: Alice Anderson, Louise Bourgeois, Helen Chadwick, Tracey Emin, Elliott Erwitt, Jane Fradgley, Isa Genzken, Susan Hiller, Joanna Kane, Sarah Lucas, Lydia Lys, Amie Siegel and Francis Upritchard, plus Richard Dadd and Salvador Dali.