On Delusion

Zusatztext 'Immensely welcome! erudite and informative! this book is a significant contribution to not just topically inventive pedagogy! but to literature on the puzzles! poignancies! and quandaries of delusion.' - George Graham! author of The Disordered Mind: An Introduction to Philosophy of Mind and Mental Illness'A clearly written and accessible but also interesting and original account of many of the core issues surrounding delusions. - Lisa Bortolotti! Birmingham University! UK Informationen zum Autor Radden, Jennifer Klappentext In this superb, panoramic investigation of delusion Jennifer Radden explores these questions and more, unravelling a fascinating story that ranges from Descartes's demon to famous first-hand accounts of delusion, such as Daniel Schreber's Memoirs of My Nervous Illness. Zusammenfassung In this superb, panoramic investigation of delusion Jennifer Radden explores these questions and more, unravelling a fascinating story that ranges from Descartes’s demon to famous first-hand accounts of delusion, such as Daniel Schreber’s Memoirs of My Nervous Illness. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Delusions and Cultural Meaning 2. Varieties of Clinical Delusion 3. Controversies Dividing Researchers 4. Delusions as Incomprehensible and Meaningless 5. Folies à deux and the Madness of Crowds 6. Spiritual Delusions 7. Delusions and Vices 8. Delusion and Violence. Index

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Radden, Jennifer (University of Massachusetts Radden, Radden Jennifer
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.07.2010
• EAN: 9780415774482
• ISBN: 978-0-415-77448-2
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 200 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Thinking in Action; Thinking in Action; Print on Demand
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Philosophy, Psychotherapy