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Madness explained: psychosis and human nature
- Author:
- BENTALL Richard P
- Publisher:
- Penguin
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 640p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This work argues that we cannot define madness as an illness to be cured like any other, that labels such as 'schizophrenia' and 'manic depression' are meaningless, and that experiences such as delusions and hearing voices are in fact exaggerations of the mental foibles to which everyone is vulnerable. The author cites evidence drawn from neurology, psychiatry, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis and cognitive psychology to show that brain and mind are two aspects of a single system, and that madness and sanity are two ends of a continuum. He also demolishes the century-old myth that there are two distict illnesses, schizophrenia and manic/depressive disorder.