http://www.salon.com/2012/11/05/hallucinations_seeing_what_isnt_there/
On November 5th, Laura Miller writes to 'The Salon' on Oliver Sack's new book "Hallucinations" and its contents. Miller starts the article outlining Sack's profile, briefly analyzing his early years and books, along with his style. She quickly mentions how the use of recrational psychoactive drugs led to his interest in the topic and speficically engages on Sack's new book. The author summarizes in a couple words the first chapters of the book, describing the basic forms of hallucination. Later on, she enters deeply in the books content, where Sack talks about the impressions of hallucinations such as sensory deprivation, epilepsy, parkisonism , fever, or chemical imbalances, transition into/out of sleep, drug use, and the Charles Bonnet syndrome, which he states are not objects of conscious control. Toward the end of the article, Miller states Sack's idea that hallucinations are iusually kept in silence due to the fear of looking psychotic. A little bit more is revealed about hallucinations in general, such as that the majority have no special relevance are non interecative, and a few specific cases of people who had allucinations is presented as examples. The article is closed with Sack's passion for the brain and how it works.
Miller's purpose with the article is simply to inform the reader and expand his knowledge on "kind of unknown" subjects. This is clear throughout the whole article as she explains a bit about hallucinations, their types and some new curiosities about them. She achieves her purpose by using a credbile source, which is a neurological scientist and his lastest work.
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