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A radical reappraisal of mental illness Madness, melancholy, insanity, lunacy, craziness, loco: a dizzying litany of words are used to describe a condition we don't truly understand. Despite centuries of scientific study, many mental disorders remain untreatable and their causes not understood. The consequences are terrible, both in human suffering and the economic impact of millions of unproductive or destructive people. In assuming that mental illness is a mathematical problem, The Logic of Madness analyses how a human action can be deviant even when rational. It reveals that a person without a genetic or brain abnormality can have an apparent mental disorder that is entirely logical in its structure. Applying this mathematical rigour, creates a theoretical map of the symptoms and causes of mental illness and demonstrates how their origins are in human misunderstanding of emotion.The thesis of The Logic of Madness is that madness is rational and, with the surprising conclusion that it is a logic problem rather than a medical problem, shows that even human actions that are usually deemed mad are logically derived from a particular combination of manipulations of emotional behaviour. A new understanding of the structures behind symptoms of mental illness will hopefully give rise to more targeted therapies that will enable us permanently to escape entrenched patterns of destructiveness.

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The book is rigorous, technical and demanding, and deserves to be widely read and debated by mental health professionals looking for new models and directions. Paradigm Explorer 2018-2, the journal of the Scientific and Medical Network Blakeway has created a model of self-destructive complex action states that we commonly called madness. This is a provocative and radical new way of thinking, and one that deserves our attention. It opens the door to new therapies that specifically target the corrupted emotions. This could lead to better psychiatric care of the mentally ill, diminish drug therapies, and start to replace them with talk therapies combined with targeted cognitive re-training. These ideas should be given careful consideration if we are to provide the best help possible for those who need it the most. Frontiers in Psychology

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Matthew Blakeway studied philosophy, mathematics and formal logic before pursuing a career in investment banking. He structured and modified financial derivatives and complex financing mechanisms in an industry where the reverse engineering of competitors' systems is common practice. After twenty years spent analysing and manipulating abstract conceptual frameworks, he began to develop a theory that humans are abstract mechanisms and that we, too, can be reverse engineered. The Logic of Madness is the culmination of that journey of discovery.

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