Strong Imagination Madness, Creativity and Human Nature

Name: Strong Imagination Madness, Creativity and Human Nature
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ISBN: 9780198507062

ISBN-10: 0198507062

ISBN-13: 9780198507062

Edition: 2001

Authors: Daniel Nettle

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Madness is the central mystery of the human psyche. Our minds evolved to give us a faithful understanding of reality, to allow us to integrate into our communities, and to help us adapt our behaviour to our environment. Yet in serious mental illness, the mind does exactly the opposite of these things. The sufferer builds castles of imaginative delusion, fails to adapt, and becomes a stranger among his own people. Yet mental illness is no marginal phenomenon: it is found in all societies and all historical epochs, and the genes that underlie it are quite common. Furthermore, the traits that identify the madman are found in attenuated form in normal thinking and feeling. The persistence of…

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List price: $58.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/3/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 246
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English



Introduction



From disease to difference and back again



From nature to nurture and back again



This taint of blood



The storm-tossed soul



The sleep of reason produces monsters



Such tricks hath strong imagination



The lunatic, the lover, and the poet



Civilization and its discontents



Staying sane


Epilogue


Further reading


References


Index