A History of Delusions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of Delusions write by Victoria Shepherd. This book was released on 2022-06-02. A History of Delusions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ‘Fascinating and compassionate’ Horatio Clare The King of France – thinking he was made of glass – was terrified he might shatter…and he wasn’t alone. After the Emperor met his end at Waterloo, an epidemic of Napoleons piled into France’s asylums. Throughout the nineteenth century, dozens of middle-aged women tried to convince their physicians that they were, in fact, dead. For centuries we’ve dismissed delusions as something for doctors to sort out behind locked doors. But delusions are more than just bizarre quirks – they hold the key to collective anxieties and traumas. In this groundbreaking history, Victoria Shepherd uncovers stories of delusions from medieval times to the present day and implores us to identify reason in apparent madness.
The Delusions of Crowds
The Delusions of Crowds - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Delusions of Crowds write by William J. Bernstein. This book was released on 2021-02-23. The Delusions of Crowds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This “disturbing yet fascinating” exploration of mass mania through the ages explains the biological and psychological roots of irrationality (Kirkus Reviews). From time immemorial, contagious narratives have spread through susceptible groups—with enormous, often disastrous, consequences. Inspired by Charles Mackay’s nineteenth-century classic Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, neurologist and author William Bernstein examines mass delusion through the lens of current scientific research in The Delusions of Crowds. Bernstein tells the stories of dramatic religious and financial mania in western society over the last five hundred years—from the Anabaptist Madness of the 1530s to the dangerous End-Times beliefs that pervade today’s polarized America; and from the South Sea Bubble to the Enron scandal and dot com bubbles. Through Bernstein’s supple prose, the participants are as colorful as their “desire to improve one’s well-being in this life or the next.” Bernstein’s chronicles reveal the huge cost and alarming implications of mass mania. He observes that if we can absorb the history and biology of this all-too-human phenomenon, we can recognize it more readily in our own time, and avoid its frequently dire impact.
Suspicious Minds
Suspicious Minds - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Suspicious Minds write by Joel Gold. This book was released on 2015-07-21. Suspicious Minds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The Truman Show delusion and other strange beliefs"--Cover.
A Colorful History of Popular Delusions
A Colorful History of Popular Delusions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Colorful History of Popular Delusions write by Robert E. Bartholomew. This book was released on 2015. A Colorful History of Popular Delusions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This eclectic history of unusual crowd behavior describes a rich assortment of mass phenomena ranging from the amusing and quirky to the shocking and deplorable. What do fads, crazes, manias, urban legends, moral panics, riots, stampedes, and other mass expressions of emotion have in common? By creating a typology of such behavior, past and present, the authors show how common extraordinary group reactions to fear or excitement are. And they offer insights into how these sometimes dangerous mob responses can be avoided. We may not be surprised to read about the peculiarities of the European Middle Ages, when superstition was commonplace: like the meowing nuns of France, "tarantism" (a dancing mania) in Italy, or the malicious anti-Semitic poison-well scares. But similar phenomena show up in our own era. Examples include the social-networking hysteria of 2012, which resulted in uncontrollable twitching by teenage girls in Leroy, NY; the "phantom bus terrorist" of 2004 in Vancouver, Canada; and the itching outbreak of 2000 in South Africa. Vivid, detailed, and thoroughly researched, this is a fascinating overview of collective human behavior in its many unusual forms.
Dreams and Delusions
Dreams and Delusions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dreams and Delusions write by Fritz Richard Stern. This book was released on 1999-01-01. Dreams and Delusions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of essays by historian Fritz Stern ponders the promise and catastrophe of twentieth-century German history. It is now reissued with a new introduction by the author.
