{"id":274,"date":"1997-02-01T15:59:59","date_gmt":"1997-02-01T23:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/?p=274"},"modified":"2010-01-05T08:21:41","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T16:21:41","slug":"fire-in-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/fire-in-the-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire in the Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the spirit of Oliver Sacks, Siegel draws on his reasearch as a neuropsychiatrist to relate these &#8220;Clinical Tales of Hallucination.&#8221; The case studies include experiences with visionary drugs, dreams, imaginary companions, and life-threatening crises. They are quite engaging, even if spruced up a bit for the sake of a good story. While leaving room for speculation about the mysteries of the human mind, Siegel&#8217;s psychiatric background compels him to overemphasize the unreality of hallucinations. His quick distinction between &#8220;false&#8221; and &#8220;real&#8221; impressions would no doubt exasperate philosophers of consciousness, but then he doesn&#8217;t go as far as to deny that hallucinations can serve a definite, even positive purpose. In the end, he neither dismisses nor sympathizes, but tends to leave the &#8216;meaning&#8217; of the tales provocative and open-ended. [New York: Penguin]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the spirit of Oliver Sacks, Siegel draws on his reasearch as a neuropsychiatrist to relate these &#8220;Clinical Tales of Hallucination.&#8221; The case studies include experiences with visionary drugs, dreams, imaginary companions, and life-threatening crises. They are quite engaging, even if spruced up a bit for the sake of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}