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LA VIE || The Divided Self, An Existential Study in Sanity and Madnessby R. D. Laing

✍ Scribed by Review by: Gérard Deledalle

Book ID
124818857
Publisher
Presses Universitaires de France
Year
1960
Tongue
French
Weight
208 KB
Volume
15
Category
Article
ISSN
0014-2166

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Presenting case studies of schizophrenic patients, Laing aims to make madness and the process of going mad comprehensible. He also offers an existential analysis of personal alienation.

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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 'di