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He was a friend of John Keel's and he touched on some of Keel's subjects like MIB,the Mothmen,and Gypsies before Keel and these are addressed in the book as well as the Phladelphia Project.
If you can find it,get it.Most people want a substansial amount for this book (it's worth it).I lucked out and got a 1st edition for $....
Leudar asks the question if the experience should be taken out of the hands of psychiatry and rehabilitated as a normal, although uncommon human experience.
Leudar lists an impressive number of historically significant voice hearers, including Soctates and Pythagoris. Pointing out that voices were implicated in the religious conversions of St. Augustine and Hildegard of Bingen. Other voice hearers like Galelio, heard the voice of his dead daughter or threatening voices like Daniel Paul Schreiber ( a nineteenth century German judge) who heard voices that boomed abuse at him.
The conclusions that Leudar draws from this fascinating study is that hearing voices is no more insane than other psychological faculties; such as thinking or imagining or seeing. Leudar and Thomas conclude that:
- In general voices are very ordinary and relate to ongoing activites (as with ordinary inner speech). - The voices are typically orientated towards the voice hearer, without direct access to each other or to other people. - Voices typically do not force voice hearers to do things, rather they influence voice hearers' decisions on how to act (an important differentiation) - Voices are not persons in the sense of being capable of reflection - there could be no voices who hear voices. - Most importantly, voice hearers do not mistake 'hallucinatory' voices for other people thinking. They follow, publicly available reality testing procedures to establish their status.
The authors locate the main problem of what voice hearers themselves make of the experience as being one that is caught between 'the rocks of mysticism and pathologisation'. The issue then is a political one and the resolution is to bring back voice-talk back into ordinary everyday life.
This book flies in the face of accepted theories about the meaning of voices and represents an important contribution to the debate about the meaning of voices and indeed mental illness.
A 'must read' for voice hearers and interested professionals wanting to discover a new perspective on this troubling and egmatic experience
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Although the book appears to have been primarily written with christians in mind, readers from other faiths will find "When Your Friend Dies" helpful when coping with their own grief. Examples from Smith's own life, from the bible, and from American history all make the reality of friendgrief more understandable.
This book is very readable. It would be the perfect gift for someone who has just lost a friend or who is only now revisiting a loss that occurred years ago. "When Your Friend Dies" would also be a valuable addition to every church library.
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Carlos Trujillo brings the proud insight of an heir to the tradition of Chilean visionary Pablo Neruda, as well as the unique and substantial contribution which sets his own work apart. This book expresses the full range of the poet's work, and offers a rewarding sojourn into the more subtle, supple territories of the human experience.