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.
Louis A. Sass is Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at Rutgers University. He is the author of Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought.
Title: The Paradoxes of Delusion: Wittgenstein, Schreber and the Schizophrenic Mind: Wittgenstein, Schreiber and the Schizophrenic Mind
Author: Sass, Louis A.
ISBN: 9780801498992
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Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication Date: 1995-06-01
Number of Pages: 208
Weight: 0.2722 kg
In this scholarly and well-written book, the author seeks to reinterpret Schreber by means of the following idiosyncratic syllogism: the doctrine of solipsism is central in Wittgenstein; solipsism is an explanation of schizophrenia; solipsism is an explaination of Schreber.
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