Article: Mad travellers: reflections on the reality of transient mental illnesses.(Review)

HACKING, IAN. Mad travellers: reflections on the reality of transient mental illnesses. xii, 239 pp., illus., maps, bibliogr. London: Free Association Books, 1998

This is a fascinating book on a fascinating subject. Ian Hacking is a philosopher of psychiatry and historical psychiatry. Previously he has published about the subject of the 'reality' of multiple personality disorder and now has turned his attention to the diagnostic history of 'mad travellers' or sufferers of Fugue. A sufferer from Fugue, a Fuguer, would typically reside in France at the end of the nineteenth century and would suffer from the occasional irresistible desire to travel long distances ...

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