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The book has a few insights, but there are better books out there for the money. It lays out three essential phenomenon that everyone needs to understand. The author does a great work with asking quesions and providing answers from both points of view. Hegel, nietzsche, and freud on madness and the unconscious jstor. Madness definition is the quality or state of being mad. First, i give my own essential dynamic for each of borderline. No bio of the author is given, and it is questionable whether he has any academic. Understanding the hidden patterns that motivate abusers. The book is essaylike with lots of history on mental diseases and a bit more philisophical than i expected, but it was an interesting read anyway. The meaning of madness opens up the topic of mental dieases. A mental disorder, also called a mental illness or psychiatric disorder, is a behavioral or mental.
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