Muses, madmen, and prophets : rethinking the history, science, and meaning of auditory hallucination
"Auditory hallucination is one of the most awe-inspiring, terrifying, and ill-understood tricks of which the human psyche is capable. Muses, Madmen, and Prophets reevaluates the popular conception of this phenomenon today and through the ages, revealing the roots of its medical understanding and treatment. The book probes history, literature, anthropology, psychology, and neurology to explain and demystify the experience of hearing voices, in a quest for understanding."--Jacket
Nonfiction
1 online resource (xiii, 254 pages)
1150844697
Prelude : the pathological assumption
The house of mirrors
Noble automatons
Interlude : listening
The tyranny of meaning
The soft-spoken god
Enigmatical dictation
Interlude : floating
Personal deity : Socrates versus the state
Digna vox : Joan of Arc versus the church
Morbid offspring : Daniel Paul Schreber versus psychiatry
Postlude : hearing voices
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