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Politics of Experience by R.D. Laing
Category: Health and Wellbeing
R.D. Laing is at his most wickedly iconoclastic in this eloquent assault on conventional morality. Unorthodox to some, brilliantly original to others, "The Politics of Experience "goes beyond the usual theories of mental illness and alienation, and makes a convincing case for the "madness of morality." ...Show more
Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise by R. D. Laing
Category: Health and Wellbeing
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Sanity Madness and the Family by R. D. Laing
Category: Science | 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: Health and Wellbeing | 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
The Politics of the Family by R. D. Laing
Category: Health and Wellbeing | Series: CBC Massey Lectures
Using concepts of schizophrenia, R.D. Laing demonstrates that we tend to invalidate the subjective and experiential and accept the proper societal view of what should occur within the family. A psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, Laing worked at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations. His books include ...Show more
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