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by Ivan Leudar; Philip Thomas


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Records of people experiencing verbal hallucinations or 'hearing voices' can be found throughout history. Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity examines almost 2,800 years of these reports including Socrates, Schreber and Pierre Janet's "Marcelle", to provide a clear understanding of the experience and how it may have changed over the millenia. Through six cases of historical and contemporary voice hearers, Leudar and Thomas demonstrate how the experience has metamorphosed from being a sign of virtue to a sign of insanity, signalling such illnesses as schizophrenia or dissociation.

They argue that the experience is interpreted by the voice hearer according to social categories conveyed through language, and is therefore best studied as a matter of language use. Controversially, they conclude that 'hearing voices' is an ordinary human experience which is unfortunately either mystified or pathologised.

Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity offers a fresh perspective on this enigmatic experience and will be of interest to students, researchers and clinicians alike.

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Socrates is not usually seen as a religious visionary.

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  • Title Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity: Studies of Verbal Hallucinations
  • Author Ivan Leudar; Philip Thomas
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
  • Date 2000-04-06
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9780415147873 / 0415147875
  • Weight 0.81 lbs (0.37 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.12 x 6.18 x 0.73 in (23.16 x 15.70 x 1.85 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Auditory hallucinations
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99053679
  • Dewey Decimal Code 154.4

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Citations

  • Scitech Book News, 03/01/2001, Page 96

About the author

Ivan Leuder is Reader in Psychology at the University of Manchester. Philip Thomas is a Consultant Psychiatrist with Bradford Community Trust and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bradford.

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