Name: Madness and Modernism By Louis A. Sass (Distinguished Professor of Clinical Psychology, Distinguished Professor of Clinical Psychology, Department of Clinical Psychology, GSAPP, Rutgers University, USA)
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Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the light of modern art, literature, and thought (revised edition) by Louis A. Sass (Distinguished Professor of Clinical Psychology, Distinguished Professor of Clinical Psychology, Department of Clinical Psychology, GSAPP, Rutgers University, USA)

The similarities between madness and modernism are striking: defiance of convention, nihilism, extreme relativism, distortions of time, strange transformations of self, and much more. In this revised edition of a now classic work, Louis Sass, a clinical psychologist, offers a radically new vision of schizophrenia, comparing it with the works of such artists and writers as Kafka, Beckett, and Duchamp, and considering the ideas of philosophers including Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, and Derrida. Here is a highly original portrait of the world of insanity, along with a provocative commentary on modernist and postmodernist culture.

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Review from previous edition "A marvelously against-the-grain book... A startling look at the strange connections between the most private workings of our minds and the most public." * Clifford Geertz, author of The Interpretation of Cultures *
"In this fascinating book... Sass sets out in largely uncharted directions... Displaying an impressive command of philosophical, literary and clinical literature on subjects of enormous complexity...[he] arrives at some highly original and profoundly disquieting insights." * Brigitte Berger, New York Times Book Review *
"An intellectual tour de force... A landmark contribution to the understanding of psychosis." * Sidney J. Blatt, Yale University, USA *
"This marvelous book... provides the richest description of the schizophrenic's inner world since R.D. Laing's deservedly classic The Divided Self... An inspired documentation of the interrelationships of modernism, schizophrenia, and our current cultural life." * Richard Restak, M.D., Washington Post Book World *
"A monumental, exciting, and troubling book, a new landmark in the study of the modern era." * Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle *

About Louis A. Sass (Distinguished Professor of Clinical Psychology, Distinguished Professor of Clinical Psychology, Department of Clinical Psychology, GSAPP, Rutgers University, USA)

Louis Sass is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Clinical Psychology, Rutgers University (New Jersey, U.S.A.)-where he is also associated with the Program in Comparative Literature and the Center for Cognitive Science. In addition to Madness and Modernism, he is the author of The Paradoxes of Delusion: Wittgenstein, Schreber, and the Schizophrenic Mind, and of many articles on schizophrenia, phenomenological psychopathology, hermeneutics, psychoanalysis, modernism/postmodernism, Wittgenstein, and Heidegger. Sass is a past president of the divisions for psychology and the arts and also for philosophy and psychology of the American Psychological Association. In 2010 he received the Joseph B. Gittler Award from the American Psychological Foundation for "the most scholarly contribution to the philosophical foundations of psychological knowledge."

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Title

Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the light of modern art, literature, and thought (revised edition) by Louis A. Sass (Distinguished Professor of Clinical Psychology, Distinguished Professor of Clinical Psychology, Department of Clinical Psychology, GSAPP, Rutgers University, USA)

Author

Louis A. Sass (Distinguished Professor of Clinical Psychology, Distinguished Professor of Clinical Psychology, Department of Clinical Psychology, GSAPP, Rutgers University, USA)

Series

International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry

Condition

New

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Year published

2017-08-31

Number of pages

560

Prizes

Winner of Voted Psychiatry book of the year in the 2018 BMA Medical Book Awards.

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Madness and Modernism Louis A. Sass (Distinguished Professor of Clinical Psychology, Distinguished Professor of Clinical Psychology, Department of Clinical Psychology, GSAPP, Rutgers University, USA)

Madness and Modernism by Louis A. Sass (Distinguished Professor of Clinical Psychology, Distinguished Professor of Clinical Psychology, Department of Clinical Psychology, GSAPP, Rutgers University, USA)

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Madness and Modernism Summary

Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the light of modern art, literature, and thought (revised edition) by Louis A. Sass (Distinguished Professor of Clinical Psychology, Distinguished Professor of Clinical Psychology, Department of Clinical Psychology, GSAPP, Rutgers University, USA)

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About Louis A. Sass (Distinguished Professor of Clinical Psychology, Distinguished Professor of Clinical Psychology, Department of Clinical Psychology, GSAPP, Rutgers University, USA)

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