Muses, madmen, and prophets
Subtitle: rethinking the history, science, and meaning of auditory hallucination
By: by Daniel B. Smith.
Publisher: Penguin Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781594201103
Subjects: Auditory hallucinations
Description: "Auditory hallucination is one of the most awe-inspiring, terrifying, and ill-understood tricks of which the human psyche is capable. Muses, Madmen, and Prophets reevaluates the popular conception of this phenomenon today and through the ages, revealing the roots of its medical understanding and treatment. The book probes history, literature, anthropology, psychology, and neurology to explain and demystify the experience of hearing voices, in a quest for understanding."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references ([231]-242) and index.