The Divine Madness of Philip K. Dick is a biographical and psychological study by Kyle Arnold, published by Oxford University Press in 2016 as a first edition. The book examines Dick's life, mental states, and creative output through the lens of psychological analysis.
Published by one of the world's most prestigious academic presses, the volume signals the seriousness with which Dick's experiences are treated as subjects of scholarly inquiry. A frontispiece photograph by Tessa B. Dick (Philip's fifth wife) is used with permission, suggesting cooperation from Dick's surviving family.
Arnold's approach bridges literary biography and clinical psychology, examining the relationship between Dick's visionary experiences, his documented mental health challenges, and his extraordinary creative output. The title itself poses the central question of Dick studies: whether his experiences represent madness, genuine divine contact, or some category that transcends both. This work contributes to a growing body of scholarship that takes Dick's inner life as seriously as his published fiction, treating the Exegesis and the 2-3-74 experiences as phenomena worthy of rigorous psychological investigation rather than dismissal.