num_pages: 208
description: Insanity―in clinical practice as in the popular imagination―is seen as a state of believing things that are not true and perceiving things that do not exist. Most schizophrenics, however, do not act as if they mistake their delusions for reality. In a work of uncommon insight and empathy, Louis A. Sass shatters conventional thinking about insanity by juxtaposing the narratives of delusional schizophrenics with the philosophical writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
language: English
title: The Paradoxes of Delusion: Wittgenstein, Schreber, and the Schizophrenic Mind
titlecomplete: The Paradoxes of Delusion: Wittgenstein, Schreber, and the Schizophrenic Mind
genres: Philosophy, Biography, Psychology, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 69
publisher: Cornell University Press