of the founders of the Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative, which included Richard Appignanesi, John Berger and Arnold Wesker and launched the graphic Beginners series with titles on Marx and Freud. In 1975 she published The Cabaret, a history of cabaret, a new edition of which came out in 2005 (Yale University Press). ICA In 1980 she left academia to become Director of Talks and Seminars at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London, where she stayed for ten years and helped the ICA talks programme gain a reputation as "an intellectual hothouse". While at the ICA she edited the Documents series, which included the books Postmodernism and Ideas from France. She became Deputy Director of the ICA in 1986 and created the ICA-Television branch, which produced England's Henry Moore in 1988 and Seductions for Channel Four. She left the ICA in 1990 to write full-time. Writing In 1991 she published a best-selling novel, Memory and Desire. A major study of Freud's life, ideas and his relations to women, Freud's Women (co-written with John Forrester) was published in 1992. As well as these she has written several other works of fiction, including thrillers. She has also written the award-winning Mad, Bad and Sad: Women and the Mind Doctors in 2008 and All About Love (2011). Appignanesi has co-written two films on Salman Rushdie for French television, presented two series of radio programmes on Sigmund Freud for BBC Radio 4, presented the arts and ideas Nightwaves programme for BBC Three, contributed to a variety of programmes, including Saturday Review, Start the Week and Woman's Hour, and written for the New Writing Partnership. Appignanesi has appeared as a cultural commentator on many television programmes, including the BBC's Newsnight and Late Review. She was General Editor of The Big Ideas series, published by Profile Books, which includes Violence by Slavoj Zizek and Bodies, by Susie Orbach. She worked as a fellow of the Brain and Behaviour Laboratory at the Open University, was a council-member of the ICA (2000–06) and was Chair of the Freud Museum, London from 2008 to 2014. She has also written for The Guardian, The Observer, The Independent, and The Daily Telegraph and The New York Review of Books. She is a former member of the Board of IMPRESS Project, the independent monitor for the UK Press. In 2004 she became the Deputy President of English PEN and then