Ivan Leudar, Philip Thomas

Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity

Studies of Verbal Hallucinations

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Produktbeschreibung

Hearing voices is equated with madness in our society but Leudar & Thomas show that this has not always been the case and that it may be a normal experience.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 371g
• ISBN-13: 9780415147873
• ISBN-10: 0415147875
• Artikelnr.: 21189020

Autorenporträt

Ivan Leuder is Reader in Psychology at the University of Manchester. Philip Thomas is a Consultant Psychiatrist with Bradford Community Trust and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bradford.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: The Daemon of Socrates. On the History of the Concept of
Hallucination. The Sign of Socrates. What the Daemon of Socrates Could Do
With Words. Part 2: The Gods of Achilles. Julian Jaynes on Gods and Voices.
Social Action in the Iliad. The Gods and Heroes in the Iliad. The Voices of
Achilles. Part 3: The Souls of Daniel Paul Schreber. Pragmatics of
Schreber's Supernatural World. Mixing Metaphors in the Court. Part 4:
Pierre Janet on Verbal Hallucinations: The Case of Marcelle. Part 5:
Pragmatists on Self. William James on Consciousness Of Self. Mead on
Socially Reflexive Self. Are Voices Mutations Of Self? Part 6: Verbal
Hallucinations in Contemporary Psychiatry. Hearing Voices and
Psychopathology. Voices and Therapists. Part 7: Working with Voices. The
Participants. Dialogical Properties. Dialogical Properties of Peg's Voices.
Follow-up. Part 8: The Frenzy of Anthony Smith: Hearing Voices in English
National Newspapers. Voices in English National Newspapers. The Frenzy of
Anthony Smith. Voices in the House of Commons. Part 9: Voice-talk. On What
Voices Do With Words. On Mundane Reality Testing 200. Part 10: Conclusion.
Notes. Bibliography. Index.