Madness and Modernism provides a phenomenological study of schizophrenic disorders, criticizing some standard conceptions of these disorders. Sass argues that many aspects of this group of disorders can actually involve more sophisticated (albeit dysfunctional) forms of mind and experience.
Madness and Modernism provides a phenomenological study of schizophrenic disorders, criticizing some standard conceptions of these disorders. Sass argues that many aspects of this group of disorders can actually involve more sophisticated (albeit dysfunctional) forms of mind and experience.
Louis Sass is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Clinical Psychology, Rutgers University (New Jersey, U.S.A.)-where he is also associated with the Program in Comparative Literature and the Center for Cognitive Science. In addition to Madness and Modernism, he is the author of The Paradoxes of Delusion: Wittgenstein, Schreber, and the Schizophrenic Mind, and of many articles on schizophrenia, phenomenological psychopathology, hermeneutics, psychoanalysis, modernism/postmodernism, Wittgenstein, and Heidegger. Sass is a past president of the divisions for psychology and the arts and also for philosophy and psychology of the American Psychological Association. In 2010 he received the Joseph B. Gittler Award from the American Psychological Foundation for "the most scholarly contribution to the philosophical foundations of psychological knowledge."
Inhaltsangabe
Preface Prologue Part One: Introduction 1: Introduction Part Two: Early Signs and Precursors: Perception and Personality 2: The Truth-Taking Stare 3: The Separated Self Part Three: Aspects of Madness: Thought and Language 4: Cognitive Slippage 5: Disturbances of Distance 6: Languages of Inwardness Part Four: Self and World in the Full-Blown Psychosis 7: Loss of Self 8: Memoirs of a Nervous Illness 9: The Morbid Dreamer 10: World Catastrophe 11: Conclusion: Paradoxes of the Reflexive 12: Epilogue: Schizophrenia and Modern Culture Appendix: Neurobiological Considerations Name Index Subject Index
Preface Prologue Part One: Introduction 1: Introduction Part Two: Early Signs and Precursors: Perception and Personality 2: The Truth-Taking Stare 3: The Separated Self Part Three: Aspects of Madness: Thought and Language 4: Cognitive Slippage 5: Disturbances of Distance 6: Languages of Inwardness Part Four: Self and World in the Full-Blown Psychosis 7: Loss of Self 8: Memoirs of a Nervous Illness 9: The Morbid Dreamer 10: World Catastrophe 11: Conclusion: Paradoxes of the Reflexive 12: Epilogue: Schizophrenia and Modern Culture Appendix: Neurobiological Considerations Name Index Subject Index
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