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Hallucinations [text (large print)] / Oliver Sacks.

Summary:

An investigation into the types, physiological sources, and cultural resonances of hallucinations. The author traces everything from the disorientations of sleep and intoxication to the manifestations of injury and illness.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781410457318
  • Physical Description: 481 pages ; 23 cm.
  • Edition: Large Print edition.
  • Publisher: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2012.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 447-473).
Formatted Contents Note:
Silent multitudes : Charles Bonnet Syndrome -- The prisoner's cinema : sensory deprivation -- A few nanograms of wine : hallucinatory smells -- Hearing things -- The illusions of Parkinsonism -- Altered states -- Patterns : visual migraines -- The "sacred" disease -- Bisected : hallucinations in the half-field -- Delirious -- On the threshold of sleep -- Narcolepsy and night hags -- The haunted mind -- Doppelgängers: hallucinating oneself -- Phantoms, shadows, and sensory ghosts.
Subject: Hallucinations and illusions
Cognition disorders
Perceptual disorders
Large type books

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