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Name: The Paradoxes of Delusion: Wittgenstein, Schreber, and the Schizophrenic Mind
ISBN-13: 9780801498992
ISBN-10: 0801498996
Addition ISBN: 9780801422102, 1501732560, 9781501732560
Author(s): Louis A. Sass, Publisher: Cornell University Press, Copyright: 1995

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.