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Hallucinations
Title:
Hallucinations
Author:
Sacks, Oliver W.
ISBN:
9780307957245
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st American ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
Physical Description:
326 p. ; 22 cm.
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.
Abstract:
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.