From: Matt Kundert (pirsigaffliction@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Apr 24 2005 - 16:44:30 BST
>You said:
>>I mean, if there are
>>any philosophical works on the nature of insanity I would very much like
>>to
>>know where to find them.
>
>Try Thomas Szasz "The myth of mental illness"; "The paradoxes of delusion"
>by Louis Sass, or, for a Wittgensteinian angle written by one of his
>friends who was also a psychologist, "The danger of words" by Conor Drury.
>
>Sam
I love Ian Hacking and he wrote a book called "Rewriting the Soul: Multiple
Personality and the Sciences of Memory". It seems to be a fascinating
little book, though I haven't quite gotten around to it.
Maybe I'll go to my shelf and see if there are any other books about
insanity.
Matt
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