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The Divided Self. An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness

✍ Scribed by R. D. Laing

Book ID
106825879
Publisher
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Year
1965
Tongue
English
Weight
1 MB
Series
Penguin Psychology
Category
Library
ISBN-13
9780140135374

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✦ Synopsis

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