Muses, madmen, and prophets : hearing voices and the borders of sanity
Daniel B Smith
- 1st ed
- London Penguin Books 2008
- xiii, 254 p. ; 22 cm
Prelude : the pathological assumption -- The house of mirrors -- Noble automatons -- Interlude : listening -- The tyranny of meaning -- The soft-spoken god -- Enigmatical dictation -- Interlude : floating -- Personal deity : Socrates versus the state -- Digna vox : Joan of Arc versus the church -- Morbid offspring : Daniel Paul Schreber versus psychiatry -- Postlude : hearing voices