Brief Summary Of Observing And Dying By Radden

This book is a nonfiction academic monograph. Since she discusses other people’s research, she synthesizes other research works. She discusses more than she presents -- it is not a dry list of data throughout the book.

Motive of author: Radden has a desire to compare what lies behind the differences in people’s behaviors (the way we process and see things). There are all different kinds of delusions. She wants to explore the social implications and domains of research of delusions. There are individual and socially held delusions. Radden might be trying to get people from different fields to view delusions the same way. She wants people to know about the different perspectives of delusions (this group talks about delusion in this way