A Philosophy of Madness: The Experience of Psychotic Thinking by Wouter Kusters

Author:Wouter Kusters [Kusters, Wouter]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: psychology, madness; philosophy; psychosis; humanity; cognition; perception, mental health, Cognitive Neuroscience & Cognitive Neuropsychology, Mind & Body, Philosophy
ISBN: 9780262044288
Google: vYIIEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2020-07-15T00:33:21.029012+00:00

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Understandably, when such periods are described in retrospect, it is not easy to say “exactly what happened.” It all has to do with what you saw, but it equally has to do with what you thought. When you discuss “exactly what happened” with a psychiatrist, or in some other context that is hostile to mysticism, more than likely the experience will be reduced to a combination of “errors of logic” (delusions) and “errors of perception” (hallucinations), while its aspect of infinity will remain unaddressed. For want of a suitable vocabulary and “metaphysics” (see Michaux above), many psychotics and former psychotics end up in the gutter with nothing at their disposal but the constant flow of antimystic drugs, where a view of the stars and the infinite firmament is replaced by the prospect of a life of “disability.”

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