This book will explain what madness is, to show that it can be understood in psychological terms, and that by studying it we can learn important insights about the normal mind. The book will argue that traditional approaches to madness must be abandoned in favor of a new approach which is more consistent with that we now know about the human mind. Over the last century or so it has become so commonplace to regard madness simply as a medical condition that it has become difficult to think of it in any other way. Bentall argues instead that delusions, hallucinations, and other unusual behaviors are best understood psychologically, and that such experiences for the most part represent exaggerations of mental foibles to which we are all prone.
This book will explain what madness is, to show that it can be understood in psychological terms, and that by studying it we can learn important insights about the normal mind. The book will argue that traditional approaches to madness must be abandoned in favor of a new approach which is more consistent with that we now know about the human mind. Over the last century or so it has become so commonplace to regard madness simply as a medical condition that it has become difficult to think of it in any other way. Bentall argues instead that delusions, hallucinations, and other unusual behaviors are best understood psychologically, and that such experiences for the most part represent exaggerations of mental foibles to which we are all prone.
Madness Explained: Psychosis and Human Nature
656
Madness Explained: Psychosis and Human Nature
656
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140275407 |
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| Publisher: | Penguin UK |
| Publication date: | 04/29/2004 |
| Edition description: | New |
| Pages: | 656 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.00(w) x 7.75(h) x 1.20(d) |
| Age Range: | 18 Years |