The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness - Paperback
by R. D. Laing
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780140135374ISBN-10:140135375UPC:9780140135374Book Category:PsychologyBook Subcategory:Movements, Psychopathology, Mental HealthBook Topic:Behaviorism, SchizophreniaSize:7.78 x 5.12 x 0.57 inchesWeight:0.3594Product ID:SCNH6G5Q8N
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
Dr. Laing's first purpose is to make madness and the process of going mad comprehensible. In this, with case studies of schizophrenic patients, he succeeds brilliantly, but he does more: through a vision of sanity and madness as 'degrees of conjunction and disjunction between two persons where the one is sane by common consent' he offers a rich existential analysis of personal alienation.
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780140135374ISBN-10:140135375UPC:9780140135374Book Category:PsychologyBook Subcategory:Movements, Psychopathology, Mental HealthBook Topic:Behaviorism, SchizophreniaSize:7.78 x 5.12 x 0.57 inchesWeight:0.3594Product ID:SCNH6G5Q8N
R.D. Laing, one of the best-known psychiatrists of modern times, was born in Glasgow in 1927 and graduated from Glasgow University as a doctor of medicine. In the 1960's he developed the argument that there may be a benefit in allowing acute mental and emotional turmoil in depth to go on and have its way, and that the outcome of such turmoil could have a positive value. He was the first to put...
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