The Paradoxes of Delusion: Wittgenstein, Schreber, and the Schizophrenic Mind

ISBN-13: 9780801498992 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 208 str.

Louis A. Sass

Opis

Insanity in clinical practice as in the popular imagination is seen as a state of believing things that are not true and perceiving things that do not exist. Most schizophrenics, however, do not act as if they mistake their delusions for reality. In a work of uncommon insight and empathy, Louis A. Sass shatters conventional thinking about insanity by juxtaposing the narratives of delusional schizophrenics with the philosophical writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein."