Fugitive minds: on madness, sleep and other twilight afflictions

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We know considerably more about the functioning of the brain than we did fifty years ago, but so many of its behaviours remain mysterious. How can we make sense of spirit possession or the psychology of alien abduction? Or even the effects of sleep deprivation or of being in love.

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• Servants of the supernatural: the night side of the Victorian mind di Antonio Melechi (2009)