Description
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.
Author: Louis A. Sass
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 06/01/1995
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.12h x 6.01w x 0.52d
ISBN13: 9780801498992
ISBN10: 0801498996
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Psychopathology | Schizophrenia
- Philosophy | Individual Philosophers
- Psychology | History
About the Author
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.