Madness and modernism : insanity in the light of modern art, literature, and thought / Louis Sass.

Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.

xxxi, 517 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm.

Revised edition.

Originally published: New York : Basic Books, 1992. Paperback by Harvard University Press, 1994.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-492) and indexes.

Prologue : the sleep of eeason -- The truth-taking stare -- The separated self -- Cognitive slippage -- Disturbances of distance -- Languages of inwardness -- Loss of self -- Memoirs of a nervous illness -- The morbid dreamer -- World catastrophe -- Conclusion : paradoxes of the reflexive Epilogue : schizophrenia and modern culture -- Appendix : neurobiological considerations.