Madness Explained. Psychosis and Human Nature By Richard P. Bentall London: Penguin Books. 2003. 640 pp. $25.00 (hb). ISBN 0 713 99249 2

Abstract

![Figure][1] This is a maddening book. The author is determined to flatten the neo-Kraepelinians, as he calls them, with knock-down arguments that occupy the first 145 pages. He presents his fundamental principle in these words: ‘ We should abandon psychiatric diagnoses altogether and