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Pathological cases shed light on ordinary selves
Broks has written eloquently about these issues, first in magazines and newspapers, and then in his book Into the Silent Land. His prose evokes the strangeness, mysteries and paradoxes of our experiences of self, usually starting from pathological cases, but using them to shine peculiar light on our ordinary experience.