Strong Imagination: Madness, Creativity and Human Nature

Author:   Daniel Nettle
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780198507062


Pages:   248
Publication Date:   01 March 2001
Format:   Hardback
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Strong Imagination: Madness, Creativity and Human Nature


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Author:   Daniel Nettle
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.70cm
Weight:   0.460kg
ISBN:  

9780198507062


ISBN 10:   0198507062
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   01 March 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1: From disease to difference and back again 2: From Nature to Nurture and back again 3: This taint of blood 4: The storm-tossed soul 5: The sleep of reason produces monsters 6: Such tricks hath strong imagination 7: The lunatic, the lover and the poet 8: Civilization and its discontents 9: Staying sane Epilogue Further reading; References; Index

Reviews

lucid, imaginative unravelling of insanity The Scotsman 20/4/2002 [a] fascinating, pithy little book The Sunday Times Books [a] fascinating, lucid book BMJ ... written with wonderful lucidity and suggestiveness. Times Literary Supplement


"`lucid, imaginative unravelling of insanity' The Scotsman 20/4/2002 `""[a] fascinating, pithy little book""' The Sunday Times Books `""[a] fascinating, lucid book""' BMJ `""... written with wonderful lucidity and suggestiveness.""' Times Literary Supplement"


This fascinating, lucid book is surprisingly short, in view of the breadth and depth of information covered. --BMJ David Nettle has ... written a stimulating book which ... make[s] the very important point that a dimensional, rather than categorical, perspective is likely to be much more rewarding for psychiatry. --The London Times


This fascinating, lucid book is surprisingly short, in view of the breadth and depth of information covered. --BMJ<br> David Nettle has ... written a stimulating book which ... make[s] the very important point that a dimensional, rather than categorical, perspective is likely to be much more rewarding for psychiatry. --The London Times<br>


`lucid, imaginative unravelling of insanity' The Scotsman 20/4/2002 ` [a] fascinating, pithy little book ' The Sunday Times Books ` [a] fascinating, lucid book ' BMJ ` ... written with wonderful lucidity and suggestiveness. ' Times Literary Supplement


Author Information

Daniel Nettle studied psychology at Oxford, before completing his PhD in Anthropology at University College London. In 1996 he was elected a Junior Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford. He has lectured in London, Oxford, Cambridge and Nigeria, and written widely across many areas of the human sciences. He is also active in the theatre. He lives in Oxford.

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