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Cargando... WHISPERS: The Voices of Paranoia (edición 1996)por Ronald K. Siegel (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. BTRIPP's review of Ronald K. Siegel's "WHISPERS: The Voices of Paranoia" (748 words) Interesting case studies of paranoia... the author's admitted drug usage (in the name of "research") and the lack of equal depth in examining the paranoid individuals detracts from what could be a fascinating book. Instead, we're left with a reasonably interesting book. I'm none the worse for reading it, although I do feel the author could have done a better job. This book is terrifying and intriguing at all times. Whispers is hard to keep down. It has a lot of information about paranoia before the experiences with different patients. This book is as if it is a test for the reader not to get paranoid. The author, Ronald K. Siegel is a doctor in the department of psychiatry and Behavioral Science at UCLA. Siegel is a crazy writer and intelligent writer that wrote his journey through case studies. The ironic part of the book is that readers are so intrigued by the different case studies like a women thinking her teeth whisper to her; and a drug addict for whom the invasion of imaginary bugs is strong enough to drive him mad. Siegel takes the readers in the a paranoia world for as long as you hold the book. Its a mind trick that a intelligent doctor/ skilled writer attempts to do and succeeds tremendously. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Combining the insights of a gifted research scientist with vivid tales that are usually the realm of the novelist, Dr. Ronald Siegel lets his readers experience the suspicion, terror, and rage that possess the mind of the paranoid. This is the first book to investigate the actual experience of paranoia and to demonstrate that under the right conditions -- drugs or deprivation, for example -- anyone can be driven into that state. And indeed, eight million Americans already have been. The paranoid inhabits a different realm of being, one that tilts the world ever so slightly. The senses detect these differences and sound mental alarms. Delusions and hallucinations feed on each other, flourishing with amazing speed. The paranoid becomes locked in a new mode of thinking -- viewing life as from a cell. In a dozen case studies, Dr. Siegel follows his patients into the shadow lands where paranoia flourishes -- drug addiction, prison, organized crime, and terrorism. He introduces us to mild cases where there is only a vague sense that something is out there stalking, to those with apocalyptic visions so intense that they shake the foundations of an entire community. We meet the old woman who hears her teeth whispering, the beautiful ballet dancer who falls in love with a shadow, and the cocaine addict for whom the invasion of imaginary bugs was strong enough to kill. This intrepid journey through the mind's dark corridors ends with a reflective coda exploring the suicide of Ernest Hemingway, and there is no better guide than Dr. Ronald Siegel. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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