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الخيال القوي : الجنون، الإبداع، والطبيعة البشرية

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الجنون هو اللغز المركزي في النفسية البشرية. خلقت أدمغتنا لتعطينا فهماً صادقاً عن الحقيقة، ولتسمح لنا بالاندماج في مجتمعاتنا، ولتساعدنا على أقلمة سلوكنا مع بيئتنا. وفي حالة المرض العقلي الشديد، يقوم الدماغ تماماً بعكس هذه الأشياء. يبني المعاني قلاعاً من التوهمات التخيلية، ويفشل في التأقلم، ويصبح غريباً ضمن سربه. مع ذلك فإن المرض العقلي ليس بظاهرة هامشية: فهو يوجد في جميع المجتمعات وفي جميع العصور التاريخية، وإن الجينات التي تكمن وراءه شائعة جداً. إذ توجد الخلايا التي تحدد الجنون بشكل مضعَّف في التفكير والإحساس السليمين. إن استمرار الجنون إذاً هو أحجية مريعة من وجهة نظر تخلقية ووجهة نظر إنسانية.

في "حلم ليلة منتصف الصيف" اقترح شكسبير ارتباطاً بين الجنون والإبداع الفني: المجنون، المغرم، والشاعر، كتب يقول: "كلها مصنوعة في الخيال". أظهرت الدراسات الحديثة وجود علاقة بالفعل. إن معدلات المرض العقلي مرتفعة جداً في عائلات الشعراء، والكتاب والفنانين، مما يوحي بأن نفس الجينات، ونفس المزاج، ونفس القدرات التخيلية تعمل في الجنون وفي القدرات الإبداعية. لذلك فإن السبب في استمرار وجود الجنون هو أن الخلال التي تكمن وراءه لها ميزات نفسية مقابل الثمن النفسي الذي يدفعه المريض.

في الخيال القوي، يستكشف دانييل نيتل طبيعة المرض العقلي، والآليات الحيوية التي يكمن وراءه، ويربطه بالعبقرية الإبداعية. يتابع لينظر في موضع كل من الجنون والخيال المبدع في تخلق نوعنا البشري

360 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

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203 reviews58 followers
March 7, 2012
This book is interesting mainly because like Freud, it's an example of how literary studies have "seeped" not just or, maybe not necessarily, into science (I like to think that a medical professional would think twice before listening to Mr Nettle*), but into popular knowledge, cultural attitudes towards mental illness and even medical practice (e.g. there are all kinds of art therapies) through the devilish witchcraft that is psychology. The explanations about the biological basis of mental illness are not altogether bad, though, and the history bits are quite interesting as well.


* who says, for example, that the fact that mental illness is partly caused by genes suggests that it has some kind of hidden advantage because otherwise 'natural selection' would have 'eliminated' those genes from the human gene pool. Erm - you know, the same way it's done with all other genes carrying predispositions for dangerous illnesses like diabetes, cancer or coronary heart disease - OH WAIT.
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May 4, 2017
كتاب يتحدث عن الفراسة وقوة الحدس والثورة التي يمكن أن تحدثها في عالم الإنسان، وأهميتها في إعادة صناعة الحياة بصورة اكثر نجاحا وانسجاما وود.يحتوي على عدة تمارين بسيطة. وقوانين عدة كقانون التفكير\القوة\اليقين\التصور\التماثل.
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January 13, 2018
Great book for psychology majors and those looking inward. Almost gave it 5 stars but it is a little difficult to read for the average person, so 4+ it is. Has clear insights into psychoticism (inherited personality trait that makes one vulnerable to madness whereas psychosis is the actual condition of madness) and the relationship to creativity. Mr. Nettles also reverberated what many of us have been saying for years: we are all capable of good things, creativity and productivity promote positivity, while greed, waste and consumption do not.
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80 reviews14 followers
April 12, 2020
Great info, great central ideas, great writing style.

Although unimportant, I also appreciate the fact that an author named Daniel NETTLE ended his book so elegantly with the saying about the strawberries underneath the NETTLE.
I can't be sure whether it was intentional or not, because the sentence had no relation to the author himself, but at the same time I doubt that the coincidence would have evaded him or his editor completely. Either way, it was a pleasant and attention grabbing way to finish off an otherwise very good text.
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66 reviews1 follower
October 14, 2023
It was a rough journey from 2014 to 2023..
I tried to read this book in 2014, before my mental crisis.. It helped me to diagnose myself even before any doctor I consulted..
I couldn't finish it then.. Tried to read it again and again but in vain..
I postponed reading it after finishing my target in reading for this year to give myself a chance and to take my time reading it..
And,, it is finished
Made me smile sometimes, made me feel pain in other times..
But.. This is who I am.. And I am excited about who I am.. It wasn't easy.. But it was and is still worth it.
Alhamdullah.
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9 reviews8 followers
February 24, 2024
A fascinating dive into the fuzzy neuroscience of mental illness and a compelling argument for its evolutionary advantages, so to say.. (Even typing the phrase 'evolutionary advantages' gives me the eugenics heebie jeebies) A reading that pairs well with Foucault's Madness and Society if you have any interest on the origins and ethics of modern psychiatry.
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688 reviews34 followers
May 6, 2021
argues that compensating factors like creativity found in relatives from divergent thinking allows genes for Schizophrenia and bipolar disorders to persist even though they are usually debilitating for the sufferer. A little divergent thinking helps, a lot destroys you.
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February 1, 2018
هذا هو الشيء الذي اريد ان اوضحه حول الاكتئاب.
ليس له علاقه بالحياه . مسيره الحياه فيها الحزن و الاسى مزعجه لكنها طبيعيه. الاكتئاب يوضع في حيز مختلف تماما. (اليزابيث ورتزيل).بتصرف.
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35 reviews6 followers
September 28, 2025
pretty good probably but then again i don’t have much knowledge on schizophrenia to back that claim up
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January 5, 2013
كتاب ماقبل النوم في اوقات الامتحانات عشان انام بسرعه ☺
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March 4, 2015
لن أتكلم عن الكتـاب لأنني لم أستطع إكماله بسبب الترجمة المريعـه :)
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