Mind Games – Short Fiction about Bizarre Mental Health Disorders, is a brilliant tour through some of the rarest but existing mental diagnosis. These stories are written by the Czech philosopher and psychologist Sam Vaknin, who has allowed me to post the book here. Read for instance about the condition that a small number of blind people suffers from, the belief that they can see. Or the strange disorder, that convinces the patient that everyone around him is imposers and that everything looks like perfect copies of the real thing. Or the novel about mass deception taking place in New York just days before 9/11. From the book:
I will never forget that day, the time of her testimony,
when my career ended. The morning was sleety and
smoggy. The fluorescent-lit courtroom flickered eerily.
The obese, perspiring judge, the restless jury, the stout
bailiff gloomily shuffled feet and folded and unfolded
arms. I sat at the prosecution table, having already
testified at the early stage of this surrealistic spectacle.
Download Mind Games here (130 pages/1.5 MB):
Mind Games – Short Fiction about Bizarre Mental Health Disorders
