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The strange history of auditory hallucination throughout the ages, and its power to shed light on the mysterious inner source of pure faith and unadulterated inspiration.
Auditory hallucination is one of the most awe-inspiring, terrifying, and ill-understood tricks the human psyche is capable of. Muses, Madmen, and Prophets reevaluates the popular conception of the phenomenon today and through the ages, and reveals the roots of the medical understanding and treatment of it. It probes history, literature, anthropology, psychology, and neurology to explain and demystify the experience of hearing voices, in a fascinating and at times funny quest for understanding. Daniel B. Smith's personal experience with the phenomenon-his father heard voices, and it was the great torment and shame of his father's life-and his discovery that some people learn to live in peace with their voices fuels this contemplative, brilliantly researched, and inspired book.
Science has not been able to fully explain the phenomenon of auditory hallucination. It is a condition that has existed perhaps as long as we have-there is evidence of it in literature and even pre-literate oral histories from across all times and cultures. Smith presents the sophisticated and radical argument that a negative side effect of living as we do in this great age of medical science is that we have come to limit this phenomenon to nothing more than a biochemical glitch for which the only proper response is medical, pharmaceutical treatment. This "pathological assumption" can inflict great harm on the people who hear voices by ignoring the meaning and reality of the experience for them. But it also obscures from the rest of us a rich wellspring of knowledge about the essential source of faith and inspiration.
As Smith examines the many incidences of people who have famously heard voices throughout history-Moses, Mohammed, Teresa of Avila, Joan of Arc, Rilke, William Blake, Socrates, and others-he considers the experience of auditory hallucination in light of its relationship to the nature of pure faith and as the key to the source of artistic inspiration. At the heart of Smith's exploration into the many extraordinary, strange, sometimes frightening and sometimes almost supernatural aspects of auditory hallucination is his driving personal need to comprehend an experience that, when considered in good faith, is as profound and complex as human consciousness itself.
Customer Reviews:
An alternate history of voice-hearing.......2007-08-13
Daniel B. Smith comes to his interest in voices in an unusual manner. He doesn't hear voices (of people who are not present), and he has no medical or scientific training on the topic. Rather, he is intrigued because his father secretly heard voices yet was not schizophrenic.
By approaching voice-hearing through a historical lens, Smith is able to show how our current concept of voices is the product of the modern era's overthrow of religion by science and medicine (and specifically psychiatry). To make his point, he focuses on three of the most well-known voice hearers in history - Socrates, Joan of Arc, and Daniel Schreber, a 19th-century judge whose madness was analyzed by Freud and Jung. All eras, he explains, subject the hearing of voices to a test. In Socrates' time, the test was political: "Are the voices subversive or corrupting to the state?" In the Middle Ages, the test was theological: "Are the voices those of God or of the Devil?" It is only in the modern era that the test has become a psychiatric one. He makes an interesting argument about the use of the term "hallucinations," saying that it was the adoption of that term that made the ultimate pathologization of voice-hearers inevitable.
Smith frames voice-hearing in the modern era as a human rights issue. Voice-hearers must struggle against the psychiatric establishment for self-determination - the right to keep their voices, and to decide for themselves about the meaning of those voices.
Although Smith's style is a bit meandering at times, his effort to normalize the hearing of voices is refreshing in the current psychiatrically dominated climate of pathology. And his accounts of the three historical figures are quite interesting in their own right. I recommend the book to anyone interested in an offbeat, alternate history and interpretation of the widespread, multi-determined phenomenon of voice-hearing.
Hearing Voices: A Deep, Rich and Rational Approach.......2007-07-03
This is a fascinating and important book about a common experience that has at different times led to inspiration, fear and sadly also misery and misunderstanding. It is estimated that at any given time about three percent of the population of the United States experiences auditory hallucinations, and over a lifetime the figure is much higher, particularly after a major stressor, such as bereavement. I say "United States" quite deliberately: there is evidence that in rural Africa and rural India visual hallucinations are more common than auditory.
As Daniel Smith says in his preface,
"It (hearing voices) occurs in cultures in al regions of the Earth and is an appropriate topic of study for an array of disciplines, including psychiatry, psychology, neurology, philosophy, anthropology, theology and linguistics."
To his list we could herbalism, pharmacology and parapsychology: there are hallucinogens that produce not only visual experiences, but also auditory and cross-modal hallucinations. And records of hearing discarnate entities have exercised parapsychologists for a century or more.
As Daniel says, he chose to be selective in his choice of material about unusual auditory experiences, and to try and tell a story. And what a story it is, running from ancient prophets to modern brain science. There are twelve chapters and the titles give you a good idea of his approach:
1. Prelude: The Pathological Assumption
2. The House of Mirrors
3. Noble Automatons
4. Interlude: Listening
5. The Tyranny of Meaning
6. The Soft-Spoken God
7. Enigmatical Dictation
8. Interlude: Floating
9. Personal Deity: Socrates Versus the State
10. Digna Vox: Joan of Arc Versus the Church
11. Morbid Offspring: Daniel Paul Schreber Versus Psychiatry
12. Postlude: Hearing Voices
Followed by Notes, quite a good Bibliography and Index.
Though he is not a specialist in the art and science of auditory hallucinations, Daniel has read widely, thought deeply and enlisted the help of some of the foremost experts in the field. He has the advantage of not only being able to think outside the box, but of throwing the box out of the window!
I sometimes sound like a broken record, insisting that hearing voices is NOT diagnostic of mental illness. Daniel makes the same point in this book, and it needs to be repeated until everyone "gets it." I have just had a discussion with some young and rather inexperienced psychiatrists who told me that if they met someone who was hearing voices, they would immediately prescribe antipsychotic medicines. There is not a shred of evidence that they should do anything of the sort unless someone is suffering or causing suffering. And even then, the "voices" should not be the focus of treatment.
Several reviewers have mentioned the work of Julian Jaynes, who postulated that auditory hallucinations were generated in the right, or non-dominant hemisphere of the brain. This book presents one of the best brief overviews of Jaynes' work that I have seen. There is an amusing little sidebar here. It is not widely known that Jaynes, like many creative innovators, had a hard time being taken seriously by other academics. He was ridiculed in some publications from the late 1970s, he was sometimes treated unkindly and people even tried to perpetrate hoaxes on him.
There is a region of the brain called the planum temporale that is the most highly lateralized part of the brain and is involved in the genesis of language and thought. Healthy right-handed volunteers usually have a large planum in the left hemisphere of the brain. In 1993 a team of people at Johns Hopkins first showed that people with schizophrenia do indeed have an equally large planum in the right hemisphere, suggesting that Jaynes was correct all along. When people hear voices, they really do: it is not something "made up." When Jaynes was called at his office at Princeton to be told about the research, he was initially suspicious that this was another hoax. Years of bad experiences had taught him to be cautious. He was thrilled when he was shown the data and that this was not some prank. The research was published in the American Journal of Psychiatry in 1995, and has since been confirmed many times.
This tale is important for another reason: Daniel does not make the common mistake of trying to reduce the hearing of voices to a some aberrant wiring in the brain. Sometimes it may be, but usually it is not. Instead he examines not just the phenomenon, but also the experience, from multiple perspectives: historical, cultural, anthropological, artistic and more besides.
The is a rich, very well written and wise book that should be an easy read for a generalist with an interest in psychology, history and spirituality.
Highly recommended.
Hearing Voices Through History.......2007-05-31
Daniel B. Smith' Muses, Madmen and Prophets is a son's labor of love for his father. Smith's father, an attorney, heard voices throughout his life, a fact that shamed and terrified him. Smith's grandfather also heard voices, but in his case, he listened to the voices without distress.
Smith makes a good argument that voice hearing was accepted as a phenomenon in human experience until the rise of modern psychiatry in the first half of the nineteenth century. Socrates heard voices. Abraham, Moses and all eighteen prophets of the Old Testament reported hearing the voice of God, as did Joan of Arc. But as modern psychiatry developed, and because hearing voices is such a key symptom of schizophrenia, public opinion shifted to believe that all voice hearing was indicative of severe mental illness.
In the 1980's a Dutch psychiatrist went on a talk show with his voice hearing patient, and asked that anyone in the audience who had experienced voice hearing please telephone him. He received 450 calls, from which developed the Hearing Voices Network, an association of people who hear voices, many of whom lead normal lives and are not mentally ill. This break-through allowed a distinction to be made between voice hearing individuals who are schizophrenic and voice hearing individuals who are not. Thus ended more than 100 years of automatic classification as insane for people who hear voices.
Smith advances an interesting idea that at the time of the ancient Greeks, at the time of Moses, human beings experienced inspiration as coming from the outside, but as the human brain changed over thousands of years, inspiration came to be experienced as thought. Though he didn't mention it, there is a phenomenon called synesthesia in which people hear music when they look at certain sights and see colors and shapes when they hear particular musical notes. One explanation for synesthesia is that as the human senses have evolved, they have separated one from another, but in some cases, the senses remain bundled. Could human senses have been bundled at the time of the Muses and Oracles, at the time of Moses, or when Mohammed heard the Archangel Gabriel tell him to recite? Who knows?
Smith's book is scholarly and intriguing without being pedantic. His thought moves in great sweeps and his prose is luminous and fluid.
Underlying it all is the tragic loss of Smith's father. Had he known what his son discovered, this man might still be alive.
Penetrating!.......2007-05-25
"Those who hear voices and what they hear in their hallucinations is examined thoroughly and almost explained in this penetrating study."
A modern look at an ancient phenomenon.......2007-03-26
I have long been intrigued by the ideas put forth in the late Julian Jaynes's "The Origin of Consciousness In the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind". Jaynes's theorized that humans did not achieve actual consciousness until comparatively recent times (it varied from culture to culture but in the Near- and Middle-East, according to Jaynes it would have been several centuries or a millennium or so BC). And he believed that the pre-conscious state was characterized by auditory hallucinations that were generally interpreted as the voices of the gods.
Jaynes's central theory about the origin of consciousness is probably beyond proof (exactly what is consciousness is a slippery concept, but Jaynes does NOT equate it self-awareness), but he does supply a great deal of evidence about how ancient humans did believe they regularly "heard" the voices of gods, and that at some point (again, it was not the same for all cultures), that ability went away, often with devastating consequences for a culture suddenly left without seeming divine guidance.
Daniel B. Smith's "Muses, Madmen, and Prophets: Rethinking the History, Science, and Meaning of Auditory Hallucination" addresses the survival of the phenomenon of "hearing voices" generated unconsciously by one's own mind. Popularly, hearing such voices is viewed as evidence of mental illness (indeed, schizophrenia has become in recent decades almost defined by the phenomenon), but Smith's book demonstrates that auditory hallucination is fairly common in people who are otherwise viewed as mentally normal. Surveys have supplied varying figures for the phenomenon (understandably, many people are reluctant to admit to a circumstance which might earn them a careless label of "crazy"; I suspect that the frequency of positive responses to the survey questions depend a great deal upon just how the questions were phrased), but it appears that at least a few percent up to maybe the majority of people at some time in their lives experience auditory hallucination, perhaps only a single time, although in some cases the phenomenon can be almost continual (Smith's own father and grandfather "heard voices" much of their lives). The condition is sometimes connected with stress (participants in combat and victims of rape appear to especially prone to it) and it sometimes is associated with bursts of great creativity. Smith discusses quite a number of famous people who regularly experienced what in today's rational world would be termed auditory hallucination: Socrates, Joan of Arc, and William Blake included.
Smith's book is not a dense, statistic-laden study, but rather a fast-flowing, somewhat ancecdotal introduction to a fascinating phenomenon which at one time may have played a decisive role in human culture and continues even today to shape some people's lives.
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Praise FOR Gerald Astor
"No one does oral history better than Gerald Astor. . . . Great reading."
–Stephen Ambrose on The Mighty Eighth
"Gerald Astor has proven himself a master. Here, World War II is brought to life through the hammer blows of their airborne triumphs and fears."
–J. Robert Moskin, author of Mr. Truman’s War, on The Mighty Eighth
"Astor captures the fire and passion of those tens of thousands of U.S. airmen who flew through the inferno that was the bomber war over Europe."
–Stephen Coonts on The Mighty Eighth
"Oral history at its finest."
–The Washington Post on Operation Iceberg
"Quick and well-paced, this will please even the most jaded of readers."
–Army magazine on Battling Buzzards
"A stout volume by a distinguished historian of the modern military makes a major contribution on its subject."
–Booklist on The Right to Fight (starred Editor’s Choice)
"Today, as we lose the veterans of World War II at an alarming rate, we must not lose sight of their sacrifices or of the leaders who took them into battle. Astor, an acclaimed military historian, provides an in-depth look at one of the war’s most successful division combat commanders, Maj. Gen. Terry Allen. . . . This well-written portrait makes for enjoyable reading."
–Library Journal on Terrible Terry Allen
Customer Reviews:
very informative and an eye opener! it reveal much of present geopolitical landscapes of burma india and chinese frontiers.......2006-12-12
this book is a precursor of the present political landscapes of burma and india. most specifically burma. that the present bandits landlords of the countries mountain lands are dominated by karens tribal rebels who actually support their existence with poppy production and traffics which actually are encouraged if not promoted by renegades ex kuomintang generals and soldiers who forrayed into the country thrun the frontiers during worid war II. A MUST READ for all who are interested in current situation in SOUTH ASIA!
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Few can match Charles Rosen's cultivation and discernment, whether as pianist, music historian, or critic. Here he gives us a performance of literary criticism as high art, a critical conjuring of the Romantic period by way of some of its central texts.
"What is the real business of the critic?" Rosen asks of George Bernard Shaw in one of his essays. It is a question he answers throughout this collection as he demonstrates and analyzes various critical approaches. In writing about the Romantic poets Lord Byron, William Wordsworth, William Cowper, and Friedrich Hölderlin, he examines the kind of criticism which attempts to uncover concealed code. He investigates the relationship between Romantic aesthetic theory and artworks, and explores the way Romantic art criticism has been practiced by critics from Friedrich Schlegel to Walter Benjamin. In essays on Honoré de Balzac, Robert Schumann, Gustave Flaubert, and others, he highlights the intersections between Romantic art and music; the artist's separation of life and artistic representations of it; and the significance of the established text.
With an apt comparison or a startling juxtaposition, Rosen opens whole worlds of insight, as in his linking of Caspar David Friedrich's landscape painting and Schumann's music, or in his review of the theory and musicology of Heinrich Schenker alongside the work of Roman Jakobson.
Throughout this volume we hear the voice of a shrewd aesthetic interpreter, performing the critic's task even as he redefines it in his sparkling fashion.
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A Boatload of Madmen: Surrealism and the American Avant-Garde, 1920-1950
Dickran Tashjian
Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson
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Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 0500282854 |
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"Christopher Columbus should have set out to discover America with a boatload of madmen." -André Breton
In 1932, against the troubled background of the Depression, the American art community had its first glimpse of the revolutionary art of the Surrealists. Combining a fascination for Freud's new symbolic language of dreams with a radical utopianism, the Parisian movement galvanized an emerging American avant-garde. New galleries opened to exhibit the "terrifying," "insane" works of Surrealist artists, and new magazines sprang up to publish a startling crop of Surrealist poetry, criticism, and vociferous attacks on mainstream culture and politics. Four years later, a major Surrealist exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York catapulted Surrealism into the cultural limelight. Soon the art of Man Ray was selling cologne and swimwear and Salvador Dalí was designing shop windows and a pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair. André Breton and his circle, exiled in Manhattan during World War II, were unable to assert control over this new kind of Surrealism. If anything, their cultural dislocation in these years gave Americans the edge in developing new Surrealist concepts and movements such as Abstract Expressionism. This innovative and vividly written cultural history tells the story of Surrealism's remarkable sea change during its years in America, from a fiercely leftist, strongly literary avant-garde movement into an apolitical, almost exclusively visual style. Exploring both "high" and "low" cultural perspectives, Dickran Tashjian shows how the American avant-garde selectively filtered and reshaped European Surrealism to meet its own agendas, and how it in turn was reinterpreted, depoliticized, and commercially exploited by mainstream American culture and the fashion/advertising industry. 85 b/w illustrations.
Customer Reviews:
with the owl and the pussycat ..........2003-11-05
Surrealism arrived in America in 1932, hardly a minute too late. According to Tashjian, it fled from Europe in the midst of the Depression and the rise of Nazism and Fascism.During the war the amazing efforts of Varian Fry's Emergency Rescue Committee enabled a number of the principle figures to slip away from the Nazi net.
Tashjian's story accounts for the amazing transformation of American fine art and popular culture under the influence of these European emigres, ending with the beginning of McCarthyism, under which regime most of them, being left-of-centre, rowed back to Europe. Perhaps Dali remained and reigned supreme.
The hardcover book has plenty of photographs, unfortunately all in black and white, and a slightly whacky presentation that makes it a fun read. It's academically researched with extensive endnotes and extremely informative. Highly recommended and now available in paperback.
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They were the luckiest basketball players ever, the toast of Tinseltown, as big as movie stars. They were the most driven players ever, haunted by their own expectations. Then, when things looked like they couldn't get any better, or crazier, they discovered a new enemy . . . each other.
Customer Reviews:
AN OK READ.......2007-09-22
THIS IS ABOUT THE LOS ANGELES LAKERS. THE BOOK GIVES US A LOOK AT MANY OF THE PLAYERS, COACHES AND OWNERS WHO HELPED MAKE THIS ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL FRANCHISE IN RECENT HISTORY. SOME OF THE STORIES ARE VERY INTERESTING AND WELL WRITTEN. BUT SOME ARE JUST SAME OLD SAME OLD. I LIKED READING ABOUT ELGIN BAYLOR, WILT AND JERRY WEST OF THE EARLY 70'S TEAMS AND THE LAKERS OF THE 80'S WITH MAGIC AND KAREEM. BUT WHEN IT CAME TO THE LAKERS OF THE 2000'S IT WAS THE SAME OLD STUFF. IF YOU LIKE THE LAKERS THEN IT IS WORTH A LOOK.
Mistakes, mistakes, mistakes..........2007-03-22
I enjoyed some of the inside stuff, but the number of errors is staggering. The most egregious can be found on Page 32, where we have the following line -- "It (the season) was further disrupted by the punch Kermit Alexander threw that caved in Rudy Tomjanovich's face as the Lakers dropped to 45-37."
Kermit Alexander? As even casual fans know, it was Kermit Washington who threw the punch that almost killed Tomjanovich. While you may wink at the many, many errors -- both factual and typographical -- in this book, one of this magnitude is impossible to excuse.
Deceptive title.......2005-12-07
The book cover makes one think this is about the Shaq-Kobe feud - and it covers it - but it mostly goes over the history of the organization from it's days in Minneapolis to their eventual move to Los Angeles. I came off thinking Heisler was originally writing a book just about the Lakers history but rushed it out to meet the Kobe-Shaq headlines. It's a good read for a Lakers fan or die-hard NBA fans. If you're looking for anything in-depth about Laker figures such as Kobe, Shaq, or Magic Johnson, I would advise you to look elsewhere but if you want an overview of the Lakers' successful history, this is your book.
Great Book... but not really........2005-01-30
I found that the stories Mark Heisler has in this book are fantastic. He obviously knows the Lakers. I love the Lakers, and so I loved this book. Or did I? As a researcher, he's top-notch. As a sports writer, again top-notch. But in book form? Someone should have stopped him. His remarkable ability to run-on sentences and under-punctuate is beyond distracting. And the typos... hundreds, no lie. Triumph Publishing should really be ashamed of itself. That having been said, I did enjoy the read in spite of the author's shortcomings and the lack of an editor. This probably has more to do with the Lakers themselves than anything else.
only in Hollywood.......2004-11-08
this Book is a trip but then again watching the Lakers&following them all of these years what else would you expect? all kinds of Drama on&Off the Court.I bet some of the Actors&Actress,Directors,etc... went to the old Forum&Now Staples to get some script ideas from.Greed,Sex,Drama,heroic performances,battle for Control&Power,etc.. this Book takes you directly there&More.what a Cast these Lakers have always been? the Book will keep your interest.
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Gives the Real Story, Not just the Glory.......2007-02-14
Many true crime fans, myself included, have torn through the books by John Douglas and other ex-members of the Behavioral Sciences Unit or BSU. We marveled at their ability to deduce intricate details of a killer's personality and lifestyle from the type of crimes they committed. We read with wonder at how they became almost overnight sensations after helping catch Wayne Williams, the man convicted of the Atlanta Child Murders.
Movies have also engrained them in our psyche. From Silence of the Lambs and Manhunter, we see these men as brave, driven, and inteligent almost to the point of clairvoyance.
But what are these men really like, behind closed doors? And how did they come to form the group that law enforcement agencies and laypeople alike admire and respect?
That is where Into the Minds of Madmen starts. It is not a book filled with chapter after chapter of car chases, midnight plane rides, or stakeouts to catch a serial killer. Instead it deals with the minutiae of how the Behavioral Science Unit came into being.
Granted, there are stories of how the team of "profilers" worked on several cases. But the goal of this book, as they state clearly in the forward is not to "resort to retelling the same sensational serial-killing stories," but instead to tell of the formation of a group that would revolutionize crime scene investigation and the methods used to catch serial offenders.
I will admit, the book can be a bit bland at times. But there is a lot of history contained in these pages, history you won't probably find anywhere else. And several of the men who spoke with DeNevi and Campbell, agents who worked in the early years of the unit, give a hint at some of the theories, books, and studies they read, which led them to create this new method of criminal investigation.
For those folks that are truly interested in the BSU, not just the thrilling stories, this is a must-read. The history contained here and the chance to get a glimpse into what made these men tick, how they developed the advanced procedures and methods almost taken for granted today, will give you a newfound respect for these men who blazed a trail that has given us all a better feeling of security.
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Madhouses, Mad Doctors and Madmen
Andrew Scull
Manufacturer: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 0812211197 |
Book Description
What was it like to be insane in the Georgian England of Mary Wollstonecraft and Coleridge? Indeed, how was the most famous mad person of the century—Shelley’s “old, mad, blind, despised king” George III—treated before his final descent into insanity in 1808? The best-selling popular historian, Roy Porter, looks at the bizarre and savage practices used by doctors for treating those afflicted by manias, ranging from huge doses of opium, blood-letting, and cold water immersion to beatings, confinement in cages, and blistering. The author also reveals how Bethlem—the London asylum created to care for the mentally sick of the capital—was riddled with sadism and embezzlement, and if that wasn’t dehumanizing enough, ogling sightseers were permitted entry—for a fee of course.
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- An interesting set of music biz stories
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Moguls and Madmen
Jory Farr
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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ASIN: 0743228936 |
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Popular Music/Non Fiction
Customer Reviews:
An interesting set of music biz stories.......2004-11-21
What you get here is eight interviews-stories about people in the music business, from a diverse group of genres. Now 10 years old, it's interesting to read about was going on then, and what has since happened to many of the people mentioned in the book. A relatively easy read but be warned it would get an R rating if it was a movie due to profanity and graphic descriptions.
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