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Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise by R. D. Laing
Category: Self-Help
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Sanity Madness and the Family by R. D. Laing
Category: Self-Help | Series: Routledge Classics
In the late 1950s the psychiatrist R.D.Laing and psychoanalyst Aaron Esterson spent five years interviewing eleven families of female patients diagnosed as 'schizophrenic'. Sanity, Madness and the Family is the result of their work. Eleven vivid case studies, often dramatic and disturbing, reveal patter ...Show more
The Divided Self by R.D. Laing
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
First published in 1960, this watershed work aimed to make madness comprehensible, and in doing so revolutionized the way we perceive mental illness. Using case studies of patients he had worked with, psychiatrist R. D. Laing argued that psychosis is not a medical condition but an outcome of the 'divide ...Show more
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