Madness Explained

Download or read book Madness Explained written by Richard P. Bentall and published by Penguin Global. This book was released on 2003 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 depression' are meaningless, based on nineteenth-century classifications; and that experiences such as delusions and hearing voices are in fact exaggerations of the mental foibles to which we are all vulnerable."--BOOK JACKET.