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A History of Delusions audiobook
- By: Victoria Shepherd
- Narrator: Antonia Bath
- Category: General, Psychology, Psychopathology
- Length: 9 hours 30 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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A History of Delusions Audiobook Summary
The extraordinary ways the brain can misfire: Why would someone wake up and claim they’re Napoleon? Or why would they believe they have been turned into a wolf and demand to be fed raw meat?
For centuries, people have dismissed delusions as a problem for the shrinks to sort out in distant asylums. But delusions are more than just bizarre case studies. They tell stories of collective anxieties and traumas.
Examining the study and documentation of delusions over time, Shepherd looks at ten extraordinary cases of delusion from the archives. Included here are the paranoid conspiracy of James Tilly Matthews, an eighteenth-century spy in revolutionary France, and Madame X, who in 1923 demanded a divorce on the grounds that her husband had been substituted for a double. Also here are King Charles VI of France, who believed that he was made of glass, and Lea-Anna B, who was convinced that King George V was in love with her. A History of Delusions covers what psychological purpose these alternative realities might serve, given how common delusions are in the general population, and what wider societal stresses they might portend.
In this groundbreaking history, Victoria Shepherd explores delusions from ancient times to present and implores us to identify reason in apparent madness. Isn’t it perfectly understandable to believe you’ve got the wrong head when the guillotine takes the heads of hundreds every day? Who cannot sympathize with the man who believes he is already dead, when all his comrades died in the battlefields?
We all have it in us to become delusional. In understanding delusions, we come closer to understanding ourselves.
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A History of Delusions Audiobook Narrator
Antonia Bath is the narrator of A History of Delusions audiobook that was written by Victoria Shepherd
Antonia Bath is an English actor, singer, and voice-over artist. She graduated from UCLA’s School of Theatre, Film & Television and currently lives in Topanga Canyon, California. Bath has performed at Cirque Bezerk, the Geffen Playhouse, the Falcon Theatre, and various CBGBs. Sokai Gakkai International in Japan hired Ms. Bath to narrate a series of photo essays for their president Daisaku Ikeda. Her voice is considered a match for Hermione Granger’s in the Harry Potter franchise.
About the Author(s) of A History of Delusions
Victoria Shepherd is the author of A History of Delusions
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A History of Delusions Full Details
| Narrator | Antonia Bath |
| Length | 9 hours 30 minutes |
| Author | Victoria Shepherd |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Blackstone Publishing |
| Release date | April 16, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9798200926633 |
Subjects
The publisher of the A History of Delusions is Blackstone Publishing. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is General, Psychology, Psychopathology
Additional info
The publisher of the A History of Delusions is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Blackstone Publishing. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9798200926633.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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