The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness by R.D. Laing

The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness

R.D. Laing

224 pages first pub 1960 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy psychology reflective slow-paced
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Dr. Laing's first purpose is to make madness and the process of going mad comprehensible. In this, with case studies of schizophrenic patients, he succeeds brilliantly, but he does more: through a vision of sanity and madness as 'degrees of conjun...

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