Muses, Madmen, and Prophets: Hearing Voices and the Borders of SanityPenguin, 2007 M03 22 - 272 pages An inquiry into hearing voices-one of humanity's most profound phenomena Auditory hallucination is one of the most awe-inspiring, terrifying, and ill- understood tricks of which the human psyche is capable. In the age of modern medical science, we have relegated this experience to nothing more than a biological glitch. Yet as Daniel B. Smith puts forth in Muses, Madmen, and Prophets, some of the greatest thinkers, leaders, and prophets in history heard, listened to, and had dialogues with voices inside their heads. In a fascinating quest for understanding, Smith examines the history of this powerful phenomenon, and delivers a ringing defense of the validity of unusual human experiences. |
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... SOCRATES VERSUS THE STATE 10 • DIGNA VOX JOAN OF ARC VERSUS THE CHURCH 11 • MORBID OFFSPRING DANIEL PAUL SCHREBER VERSUS PSYCHIATRY 12 • POSTLUDE HEARING VOICES Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index PREFACE Hearing voices when no ...
... SOCRATES VERSUS THE STATE 10 • DIGNA VOX JOAN OF ARC VERSUS THE CHURCH 11 • MORBID OFFSPRING DANIEL PAUL SCHREBER VERSUS PSYCHIATRY 12 • POSTLUDE HEARING VOICES Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index PREFACE Hearing voices when no ...
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... 2. THE HOUSE OF MIRRORS 15 3 • NOBLE AUTOMATONS 33 4 • INTERLUDE LISTENING 47 • THE TYRANNY OF MEANING 57 6. THE SOFT - SроKEN GOD 85 7 ENIGMATICAL DICTATION 107 8 • INTERLUDE FLOATING 129 9 PERSONAL DEITY • SOCRATES.
... 2. THE HOUSE OF MIRRORS 15 3 • NOBLE AUTOMATONS 33 4 • INTERLUDE LISTENING 47 • THE TYRANNY OF MEANING 57 6. THE SOFT - SроKEN GOD 85 7 ENIGMATICAL DICTATION 107 8 • INTERLUDE FLOATING 129 9 PERSONAL DEITY • SOCRATES.
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... SOCRATES VERSUS THE STATE 141 • IO DIGNA VOX JOAN OF ARC VERSUS THE CHURCH 165 II . MORBID OFFSPRING DANIEL PAUL SCHREBER VERSUS PSYCHIATRY 193 12 • POSTLUDE HEARING VOICES 213 Notes 219 Bibliography 231 Acknowledgments Index 243 241 ...
... SOCRATES VERSUS THE STATE 141 • IO DIGNA VOX JOAN OF ARC VERSUS THE CHURCH 165 II . MORBID OFFSPRING DANIEL PAUL SCHREBER VERSUS PSYCHIATRY 193 12 • POSTLUDE HEARING VOICES 213 Notes 219 Bibliography 231 Acknowledgments Index 243 241 ...
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... Socrates , Joan of Arc , and the German psychiatric patient Daniel Paul Schreber - because the documentation on their lives was particularly rich and because they are all figures who came into stark , tragic conflict with the culture of ...
... Socrates , Joan of Arc , and the German psychiatric patient Daniel Paul Schreber - because the documentation on their lives was particularly rich and because they are all figures who came into stark , tragic conflict with the culture of ...
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... Socrates on the side of the mad than with the faculty of the Sorbonne on that of the sane? —JOHAN HUIZINGA, “Bernard Shaw's Saint”. In. the summer of 1995, when I was seventeen years old, my oldest brother and I self-published a memoir ...
... Socrates on the side of the mad than with the faculty of the Sorbonne on that of the sane? —JOHAN HUIZINGA, “Bernard Shaw's Saint”. In. the summer of 1995, when I was seventeen years old, my oldest brother and I self-published a memoir ...
Contents
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NOBLE AUTOMATONS | 33 |
FLOATING | 129 |
PERSONAL DEITY | 141 |
IO DIGNA | 165 |
MORBID OFFSPRING | 193 |
POSTLUDE | 213 |
Notes | 219 |
INTERLUDE | 221 |
Bibliography | 231 |
THE SOFTSроKEN | 237 |
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Muses, Madmen, and Prophets: Hearing Voices and the Borders of Sanity Daniel B. Smith No preview available - 2008 |
Muses, Madmen, and Prophets: Hearing Voices and the Borders of Sanity Daniel B. Smith No preview available - 2008 |
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