1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452049703321

Autore

McCarthy-Jones Simon <1978->

Titolo

Hearing voices : the histories, causes, and meanings of auditory verbal hallucinations / / Simon McCarthy-Jones [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012

ISBN

978-6-613-63346-0

1-139-36584-3

1-280-64741-8

1-139-01753-5

1-139-37553-9

1-139-37696-9

1-139-37154-1

1-139-37982-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 457 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

616.89

Soggetti

Hallucinations and illusions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. A History of Hearing Voices: -- From ancient Mesopotamia to the pre-Reformation world -- Political voices: religion, medicine and hearing voices -- From the birth of psychiatry to the present day; Part II. The Phenomenology and Lived Experience of Hearing Voices -- The phenomenology of hearing voices in people with psychiatric diagnoses -- The lived experience of hearing voices in individuals diagnosed with psychotic disorder, or: the journey from patient to non-patient -- Beyond disorder: religious and cross cultural perspectives -- The phenomenology of hearing voices in people without psychiatric diagnoses; Part III. The Causes of Hearing Voices -- Neuroscience and hearing voices: it's the brain, stupid -- Neuropsychological models I: inner speech; -- Neuropsychological models II: memory and hypervigilance -- The wound is peopled from world to brain and back again; Part IV. The Meanings of Hearing Voices -- The struggle for meanings; Conclusion: moving towards new models of hearing voices.



Sommario/riassunto

The meanings and causes of hearing voices that others cannot hear (auditory verbal hallucinations, in psychiatric parlance) have been debated for thousands of years. Voice-hearing has been both revered and condemned, understood as a symptom of disease as well as a source of otherworldly communication. Those hearing voices have been viewed as mystics, potential psychiatric patients or simply just people with unusual experiences, and have been beatified, esteemed or accepted, as well as drugged, burnt or gassed. This book travels from voice-hearing in the ancient world through to contemporary experience, examining how power, politics, gender, medicine and religion have shaped the meaning of hearing voices. Who hears voices today, what these voices are like and their potential impact are comprehensively examined. Cutting edge neuroscience is integrated with current psychological theories to consider what may cause voices and the future of research in voice-hearing is explored.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789516703321

Autore

Badiou Alain

Titolo

Theoretical writings / Alain Badiou ; edited and translated by Ray Brassier and Alberto Toscano

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; New York, : Continuum, 2004

ISBN

1-4725-4773-X

1-283-20781-8

9786613207814

1-4411-9432-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (299 p.)

Collana

Athlone contemporary European thinkers

Disciplina

194

Soggetti

Philosophy

Methodology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-252) and indexes

Nota di contenuto

List of Sources -- Editors' Note -- Author's Preface -- I. Ontology is Mathematics -- 1. Mathematics and Philosophy: The Grand Style and



the Little Style -- 2. Philosophy and Mathematics: Infinity and the End of Romanticism -- 3. The Question of Being Today -- 4. Platonism and Mathematical Ontology -- 5. The Being of Number -- 6. One, Multiple, Multiplicities -- 7. Spinoza's Closed Ontology -- II. The Subtraction of Truth -- 8. The Event as Trans-Being -- 9. On Subtraction -- 10. Truth: Forcing and the Unnameable -- 11. Kant's Subtractive Ontology -- 12. Eight Theses on the Universal -- 13. Politics as Truth Procedure -- III. Logics of Appearance -- 14. Being and Appearance -- 15. Notes Towards a Thinking of Appearance -- 16. The Transcendental -- 17. Hegel and the Whole -- 18. Language, Thought, Poetry -- Notes -- Index of Concepts -- Index of Names

Sommario/riassunto

Alain Badiou is arguably the most important and original philosopher working in France today. Swimming against the tide of postmodern orthodoxy, Badiou's work revitalizes philosophy's perennial attempt to provide a systematic theory of truth. This volume presents for the first time in English a comprehensive overview of Badiou's ambitious system. Beginning with Badiou's controversial assertion that ontology is mathematics, this volume sets out his theory of the emergence of truths from the singular relationship between a subject and an event. Also included is a substantial extract from Badiou's forthcoming work on the logics of appearance and the concept of world, presented here in advance of its French publication. Ranging from startling re-readings of canonical figures (Spinoza, Kant and Hegel) to decisive engagements with poetry, psychoanalysis and radical politics, Theoretical Writings is an indispensable introduction to one of the great thinkers of our time. The volume also features a preface written by the author especially for this collection