Delusions and the Madness of the Masses

Delusions and the Madness of the Masses
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 255
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ISBN-10 : 9781442206052
ISBN-13 : 1442206055
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Book Synopsis Delusions and the Madness of the Masses by : Lawrie Reznek

Download or read book Delusions and the Madness of the Masses written by Lawrie Reznek and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all think that we can tell the difference between someone who is mad, or whom psychiatrists call psychotic, and someone who is sane. But can we really tell who is mad and who is not? Do we really know what madness is and how it should be recognized? Have psychiatrists made a sensible distinction between the patient who believes that aliens are beaming messages to him from a foreign planet, and the religious fanatic who believes God communicates to him via automatic writing? Is there a difference between the paranoid patient who believes that the FBI is after him, and the sizeable proportion of our normal population that believe that the US government orchestrated the 9-11 bombings? Here, Reznek hopes to shed light on the delusions of the masses-those delusions that are common to everyday people living so-called ordinary lives. He provides an understanding of madness and the psychological processes that drive us to adopt delusions, arguing that it is a mistake to view only schizophrenic patients as delusional, while excluding large groups of society from such an analysis. If we abandon the idea that whole communities cannot share a delusion, we can come to a better understanding about why the world is such a dangerous place.


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