Smith, Daniel B

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

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Auditory hallucinations
Hallucinations

616.89 SMI