Review Essay
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Louis Sass has turned schizophrenia on its head. Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought brings together more than a hundred years of cumulative writings, observations and theories about schizophrenia, lays bare the traditional framework of assumptions which underpins this considerable body of knowledge, then proposes in its place an alternative way of organizing the evidence which is so radical that it amounts to a new paradigm for understanding schizophrenia. Though encyclopaedic and authoritative, Madness and Modernism is effortless to read because Sass is a gifted essayist whose lucid style complements his meticulous scholarship. He holds schizophrenia in one hand and modernism in the other, inviting us to look back and forth from one to the other as he draws attention to their various affinities, connecting threads and common origins. His purpose is to illuminate schizophrenia in the light of modernism, though he sheds considerable light on modernism in the process. He examines each facet of schizophrenia in turn – the precursors and early signs, the disturbances of thought, perception and language, the disordered sense of self, hallucinations and delusions, and the biological and cultural aspects of the illness. As he begins to demonstrate more and more common ground between schizophrenia and modernism, the traditional theories of the illness begin to look increasingly dubious and a novel interpretation of schizophrenia emerges. This review essay examines the major arguments put forward in Madness and Modernism. Its broader purpose is to identify the core mean-
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