Progress of Reality of Insanity

Progress of Reality of Insanity

Author: Ron McIntyre

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2010-10-07

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1452072388

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Satire essays on Insanity in general and some spin-offs 26 chapters and a list of macims


Progress of Reality of Insanity the Second Coming

Progress of Reality of Insanity the Second Coming

Author: Ron McIntyre

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2021-04-08

Total Pages: 483

ISBN-13: 1665514817

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The mind excited with blazes of fiery thoughts, flashes forth wonders of amazement far past the imaginable, somewhere in the far-out extremes beyond non-existence, somewhere God is frightened to wander around! I have seen him tip-toe across the stars and stroll around in the sky like he owned them. And command the lightning where to strike! His powers of wonderment cause hysterical raptures of ecstasy! He can transport a man’s mind from reality into oblivion. His frenzied mind teeters on the brink of infinity, his thinking is so complex he had to invent new words to explain them. He can force the trumpets of the seventh heavenly plague to blast before their appointed time, and confuse the armies in heaven to where they do not know whose command to follow. Lightning and voices and thunders exist only by his permission! He commands the powers in heaven, the angels fall at his feet, the sun no longer sheds light and the moon turns to blood and the stars fall from the sky. Who is this; The Almighty, The Only-Begotten; or the Third in Command, no (though some think so), this is the author: Ron McIntyre!


Global Insanity

Global Insanity

Author: James A. Coffman

Publisher: Isce Publishing

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781938158049

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In this essay, two biologists argue that the reductionist model of the world developed by Western civilization misrepresents life, undermining the ability to regulate and adapt to the accelerating anthropogenic transformation of the world entrained by that very model. An alternative worldview is presented.


Reality Police

Reality Police

Author: Anthony Brandt

Publisher:

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13:

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"Reality Police is about the experience of mental patients in this country's mental-health system, about what happens to them once they have been labeled 'mentally ill' and shoved into the system to be 'cured." It is about the power of some people to put other people away and what is done to them in the name of mental health. The book analyzes the mental-health system in terms of its function as an enforcer of social standards ... It concludes by examining the possibilities for changing the system ... Anthony Brandt spent several years ... interviewing ex-patients (including members of the Mental Patients Liberation Project) and mental-health workers, and experiencing firsthand the system at its core--for simulating a breakdown, he committed himself to Hudson Valley State Hospital in Poughkeepsie, New York, where his experiences led him to understand just how fragile was his own acknowledged stability ..."--Book jacket.


Hegel's Theory of Madness

Hegel's Theory of Madness

Author: Daniel Berthold-Bond

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1995-01-01

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780791425053

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This book shows how an understanding of the nature and role of insanity in Hegel's writing provides intriguing new points of access to many of the central themes of his larger philosophic project. Berthold-Bond situates Hegel's theory of madness within the history of psychiatric practice during the great reform period at the turn of the eighteenth century, and shows how Hegel developed a middle path between the stridently opposed camps of "empirical" and "romantic" medicine, and of "somatic" and "psychical" practitioners. A key point of the book is to show that Hegel does not conceive of madness and health as strictly opposing states, but as kindred phenomena sharing many of the same underlying mental structures and strategies, so that the ontologies of insanity and rationality involve a mutually illuminating, mirroring relation. Hegel's theory is tested against the critiques of the institution of psychiatry and the very concept of madness by such influential twentieth-century authors as Michel Foucault and Thomas Szasz, and defended as offering a genuinely reconciling position in the contemporary debate between the "social labeling" and "medical" models of mental illness.


Insanity

Insanity

Author: Charles Patrick Ewing

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2008-04-07

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 0198043694

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The insanity defense is one of the oldest fixtures of the Anglo-American legal tradition. Though it is available to people charged with virtually any crime, and is often employed without controversy, homicide defendants who raise the insanity defense are often viewed by the public and even the legal system as trying to get away with murder. Often it seems that legal result of an insanity defense is unpredictable, and is determined not by the defendants mental state, but by their lawyers and psychologists influence. From the thousands of murder cases in which defendants have claimed insanity, Doctor Ewing has chosen ten of the most influential and widely varied. Some were successful in their insanity plea, while others were rejected. Some of the defendants remain household names years after the fact, like Jack Ruby, while others were never nationally publicized. Regardless of the circumstances, each case considered here was extremely controversial, hotly contested, and relied heavily on lengthy testimony by expert psychologists and psychiatrists. Several of them played a major role in shaping the criminal justice system as we know it today. In this book, Ewing skillfully conveys the psychological and legal drama of each case, while providing important and fresh professional insights. For the legal or psychological professional, as well as the interested reader, Insanity will take you into the minds of some of the most incomprehensible murderers of our age.


The Insanity of God

The Insanity of God

Author: Nik Ripken

Publisher: B&H Publishing Group

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 1433673088

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An amazing story of a missionary couple's journey into the toughest places on earth is combined with stories about remarkable people of faith they encountered to challenge and inspire those curious about the sufficiency of God.


Insanity

Insanity

Author: Thomas Szasz

Publisher: Syracuse University Press

Published: 1997-04-01

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9780815604600

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Is insanity a myth? Does it exist merely to keep psychiatrists in business? In Insanity: The Idea and Its Consequences, Dr. Szasz challenges the way both science and society define insanity; in the process, he helps us better understand this often misunderstood condition. Dr. Szasz presents a carefully crafted account of the insanity concept and shows how it relates to and differs from three closely allied ideas—bodily illness, social deviance, and the sick role.


Conducting Insanity Evaluations

Conducting Insanity Evaluations

Author: Richard Rogers

Publisher: Guilford Press

Published: 2000-02-18

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9781572305212

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Forensic professionals are brought up to date on key issues surrounding insanity investigations, including the legal standards applied to criminal responsibility. The book provides research-based guidelines for interview-based assessments, psychological testing and other specialized procedures, and forensic reports and testimony.


We're All Insane! Second Edition

We're All Insane! Second Edition

Author: Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

Publisher: FitzMaurice Publishers

Published: 2012-06-25

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 1878693271

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This book helps you to understand how thought becomes a problem when thought replaces reality. You discover enough information and examples to be able to negate thought as reality, which enables you to re-experience “what is”. You can live sanely in an insane world. You just have to choose against the common illusions and delusions of your society and your conditioning. All the common illusions and delusions of the world are constructed through the misunderstanding and misuse of thought. Albert Ellis, voted the second most influential psychologist of all time by the American Psychological Association (APA), said of the first edition of We’re All Insane!, “I found it a most unusual book that makes some excellent points, almost all of which I go along with. It sort of brings Alfred Korzybski up-to-date and makes some points which [sic] are not particularly clear in his own writings.