Sanity, Madness and the Family: Families of Schizophrenics by Aaron Esterson, R.D. Laing

Sanity, Madness and the Family: Families of Schizophrenics

Aaron Esterson, R.D. Laing

288 pages first pub 1964 (editions)

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In 1958, while working at the Tavistock, John Bowlby introduced Laing to Gregory Bateson's double bind theory of schizophrenia. Intrigued, Laing engaged another Glaswegian, Dr. Aaron Esterson, in an intensive phenomenological study of more than 10...

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