User:Jacobisq/Rational madness

Rational madness is a term used in the psychology of addiction,[1] which sees the latter as the by-product of false beliefs and meaning systems geared to the evasion of reality.[2]

The term is also used in the critique of Taylorism for its treatment of men and machines as equivalent and interchangeable.[3]

  1. ^ Ray Hoskins, Rational madness (1989)
  2. ^ Nancy J. Herman, Deviance (1995) p. 461
  3. ^ M. L. Berger, The automobile in American history and culture P. 78