Brierre de Boismont: HALLUCINATIONSBrierre de Boismont: HALLUCINATIONS; OR, THE RATIONAL HISTORY OF APPARITIONS, VISIONS, DREASMS, ECSTASY, MAGNETISM AND SOMNAMBULISM. Brierre contests the popular medical opinion that hallucinations are always a symptom of insanity. In certain cases, Brierre contended that they are a purely physiological phenomenon, coexisting with reason. Brierre argued for a more philosophical approach to hallucinations, believing that to confine hallucination to medical observation is to ignore its intimate relationship with religious dogma, history, philosophy, and morality. Emphatically, he reminds us that those most celebrated in history - including Descartes, Lord Byron, and Dr. Samuel Johnson - manifested hallucinations and yet were never suspected of mental defect.Retail Price: $99.00 |
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