Why Psychosis Is Not So Crazy

This one was a bit hit or miss for me.

The first portion of the book is dedicated to pyschosis' relation to words. I'm not nearly smart or well versed enough to say that the author is right or wrong about this, but I did find his reasoning to be a stretch. He tells an anecdote about a man who became fixated on a brick in a state of psychosis. He then puts together some far fetched relation to the word "brick" as the reason the person was drawn to a physical brick.

I also took issue with a statement made at one point that as long as the person is not bothered by their psychosis then it is ok. Unfortunately in some cases of psychosis the person doesn't realize they're acting erratically or in a disturbing manner. In other parts of the book, he does acknowledge that people in psychosis aren't always self-aware, so this statement may have just been poorly worded.

I did find the thesis that all of us are just on the precipice of psychosis to be very fascinating. It's more common than you think - even the most sane person has occasions when they see or hear things that aren't there. There were certainly very interesting pockets, but it tends to linger on some of the more far fetched reasoning.