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Published on: June 25, 2019
Abstract:
Following a description of the chaos existent in the therapeutic, political and methodological approaches to madness, the author underlines the importance of language in the explanation of the totality of attitudes regarding the insane. He formulates two hypotheses: listening to madness can be accomplished by the awareness of what the speech of the insane touches in us and tends to modify among our conception; the practice of speaking of madness can avoid bias in as much as it is rooted in a quality of hearing which permits anything to happen to those who put themselves in such a hearing situation. These hypotheses are then demonstrated by an analysis of texts and interviews with people having experienced psychosis.
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