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Author : R. D. Laing
Release : 1974
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Book Synopsis Sanity, Madness, and the Family by : R. D. Laing
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Author : R.D Laing
Release : 2016-10-04
Genre : Psychology
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Book Synopsis Sanity, Madness and the Family by : R.D Laing
Download or read book Sanity, Madness and the Family written by R.D Laing. This book was released on 2016-10-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 patterns of affection and fear, manipulation and indifference within the family. But it was the conclusions they drew from their research that caused such controversy: they suggest that some forms of mental disorder are only comprehensible within their social and family contexts; their symptoms the manifestations of people struggling to live in untenable situations. Sanity, Madness and the Family was met with widespread hostility by the psychiatric profession on its first publication, where the prevailing view was to treat psychosis as a medical problem to be solved. Yet it has done a great deal to draw attention to the complex and contested nature of psychosis. Above all, Laing and Esterson thought that if you understood the patient's world their apparent madness would become socially intelligible. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Hilary Mantel.
Author : Aaron Esterson
Release : 1972
Genre : Psychology
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Book Synopsis The Leaves of Spring by : Aaron Esterson
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Author : R. D. Laing
Release : 2010-01-28
Genre : Psychology
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Book Synopsis The Divided Self by : R. D. Laing
Download or read book The Divided Self written by R. D. Laing. This book was released on 2010-01-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Divided Self, R.D. Laing's groundbreaking exploration of the nature of madness, illuminated the nature of mental illness and made the mysteries of the mind comprehensible to a wide audience. 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 'divided self', or the tension between the two personas within us: one our authentic, private identity, and the other the false, 'sane' self that we present to the world. Laing's radical approach to insanity offered a rich existential analysis of personal alienation and made him a cult figure in the 1960s, yet his work was most significant for its humane attitude, which put the patient back at the centre of treatment. Includes an introduction by Professor Anthony S. David. 'One of the twentieth century's most influential psychotherapists' Guardian 'Laing challenged the psychiatric orthodoxy of his time ... an icon of the 1960s counter-culture' The Times
Author : Ronald David Laing
Release : 1969
Genre : Schizophrenia
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Book Synopsis Sanity, Madness and the Family by : Ronald David Laing
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