In this fascinating book...Sass sets out in largely uncharted directions...Displaying an impressive command of philosophical, literary and clinical literature on subjects of enormous complexity...[he] arrives at some highly original and profoundly disquieting insights.
-- Brigitte Berger New York Times Book Review
A marvelously against-the-grain book...A startling look at the strange connections between the most private workings of our minds and the most public.
-- Clifford Geertz
An intellectual tour de force...A landmark contribution to the understanding of psychosis.
-- Sidney J. Blatt, Yale University
This marvelous book...provides the richest description of the schizophrenic's inner world since R. D. Laing's deservedly classic The Divided Self...An inspired documentation of the interrelationships of modernism, schizophrenia, and our current cultural life.
-- Richard Restak, M.D. Washington Post Book World
A monumental, exciting, and troubling book, a new landmark in the study of the modern era.
-- Kenneth Baker San Francisco Chronicle
Wholly fascinating...Madness and Modernism is rooted in a thorough knowledge of the psychological literature, but [Sass] also draws on an extensive acquaintance with 19th and 20th-century art, literature and philosophy...Powerful, lucid and original...Should revolutionise our thinking about the workings of the human mind.
-- Iain McGilchrist London Review of Books
[A] brilliant study...An important contribution, not only to our understanding of schizophrenia but also to our comprehension of the nature of mental illness in general.
-- Contemporary Psychology
