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Book

Hallucinations

Call Number

  • 616.89 S1218 (CEN)

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Edition

1st American ed.

Publication Information

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.

Physical Description

326 p. ; 22 cm.

Summary

An investigation into the types, physiological sources, and cultural resonances of hallucinations traces everything from the disorientations of sleep and intoxication to the manifestations of injury and illness.

Contents

  • Silent multitudes : Charles Bonnet syndrome
  • The prisoners cinema : sensory deprivation
  • A few nanograms of wine : hallucinatory smells
  • Hearing things
  • The illusions of Parkinsonism
  • Altered states
  • Patterns : visual migraine
  • The sacred disease : epileptic auras
  • Bisected : hallucinations in the half-field
  • Delirious
  • On the threshold of sleep
  • Narcolepsy and night hags
  • The haunted mind
  • Doppelgangers : hallucinating oneself
  • Phantoms, shadows, and sensory ghosts.

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