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E33 | Madness and Wisdom | Richard Bentall, Patricia Casey, Robert-Rowland Smith
Category: Arts
Duration: 00:42:56
Publish Date: 2017-02-21 04:04:26
Description: Madness is understood as the opposite of reason. Yet as Van Gogh and Nietzsche attest, madness can also be an inexplicable source of insight. Might madness be a strange form of wisdom rather than its diseased opposite? Or is this to make light of a condition that requires treatment? Author of Madness Explained Richard Bentall, psychiatrist Patricia Casey and philosopher and author of Death Drive Robert-Rowland Smith dispute meaning and madness.
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