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[Seeing the insane: MacKenzie, Kleist, William James]

S L Gilman

    Confinia Psychiatrica. Borderland of Psychiatry. Grenzgebiete Der Psychiatrie. Les Confins De La Psychiatrie
    |January 1, 1979
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    This study explores how visual models influence the perception of mental illness, examining texts from Henry MacKenzie, Heinrich von Kleist, and William James. It reveals that visual models underpin the seemingly hallucinatory elements in Kleist

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