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What determines the form of mental illness from which particular people suffer? Professor Claridge's central theme is that "psychiatric" disorders, even in their most severe forms-are abnormal manifestations of temperamental and personality characteristics we all possess to a greater or lesser degree. Examining the major forms of abnormality from this point of view, the author puts particular emphasis on the continuity between schizophrenia and normal...
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• This groundbreaking work is a unique collaboration between an Oxford psychologist and two literary critics. The book explores the lives and works of ten authors, among them Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath, who embody both serious mental illness and great originality of thought. The book draws upon personal diaries, historical archives, clinical records and literary productions, and examines modes of thinking such as divergent thought, over-inclusiveness,...
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