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Madness Explained: Psychosis and Human Nature Book

Explains 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. This book argues that traditional approaches to madness must be abandoned in favour of an approach which is more consistent with what we know about the human mind.Read More

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    This text explains what madness is showing that it can be understood in psychological terms and that by studying it we can learn important insights about the normal mind. It argues that traditional approaches to madness must be abandoned in favour of a new approach which is more consistent with what we now know about the human mind. Over the last 100 years 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 behaviours are best understood psychologically and that such experiences for the most part represent exaggerations of mental foibles to which we are all prone.

  • Penguin

    Is madness purely a medical condition that can be treated with drugs? Is there really a clear dividing line between mental health and mental illness - or is it not so easy to classify who is sane and who is insane? In Madness Explained leading clinical psychologist Richard Bentall shatters the modern myths that surround psychosis.

  • ASDA

    Explains 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. This book argues that traditional approaches to madness must be abandoned in favour of an approach which is more consistent with what we know about the human mind.

  • Blackwell

    In Madness Explained clinical psychologist Richard Bentall shatters the modern myths that surround psychosis. This work argues that we cannot define madness as an illness to be cured like any other, that labels such as 'schizophrenia' and 'manic...

  • Pickabook

    Richard P. Bentall, Aaron T. Beck (Foreword)

  • 0140275401
  • 9780140275407
  • Richard P Bentall
  • 29 April 2004
  • Penguin
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 656
  • New Ed

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