Leyla Sanai

Illusions about delusions

Deluded paranoiacs are especially prone to believing in costly occult ‘remedies’ that act as placebos at best

issue 22 June 2019

  • The Heartland: Finding and Losing Schizophrenia

    Nathan Filer

    Faber, pp. 246

  • The Collected Schizophrenias

    Esmé Weijun Wang

    Penguin, pp. 201

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