Road-Book America: Contemporary Culture and the New Picaresqueby Rowland A. Sherrill

Daniel B. Smith. Muses, Madmen, and Prop

Daniel B. Smith. Muses, Madmen, and Prophets: Rethinking the History, Science, and Meaning of Auditory Hallucination. New York: Penguin Press, 2007. 272 pp. $24.95 (cloth). ISBN-13: 978-1594201103. Jerome Kagan. What Is Emotion? History, Measures, and Meanings. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007. 288 pp. $27.50 (cloth). ISBN-13: 978-0300124743. Emily Martin. Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. 384 pp. $45.00 (cloth). ISBN-13: 9780691004235. Joseph Cambray. Synchronicity: Nature and Psyche in an Interconnected Universe. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2009. 168 pp. $23.95 (cloth). ISBN-13: 978-1603441438. Barbara Ehrenreich. Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2009. 256 pp. $23.00 (cloth). ISBN-13: 978-0805087499

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One of many recent books that raise important questions about modern psychiatric diagnoses and treatment, this examination of auditory hallucinations grew out of Daniel Smith's questions about the experiences of his father and his grandfather, both of whom heard voices. Only late in life did Smith's