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Divided self: an existential study in sanity and madness

By: Laing, R. D.

Publisher: New York : Penguin Books, 2010Description: xi, 218 p. ; ill. 20 cm.ISBN: 9780141189376.Subject(s): Case studies | Clinical psychology | Madness | Schizophenia | Ontological security | PsychosisDDC classification: 157.282092 Summary: Dr Laing's first purpose is to make madness & the process of going mad comprehensible. In this he succeeds, but he does more: through a vision of sanity & madness as 'degrees of conjunction & disjunction between two persons where the one is sane by common consent' he offers a rich existential analysis of personal alienation.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Dr Laing's first purpose is to make madness & the process of going mad comprehensible. In this he succeeds, but he does more: through a vision of sanity & madness as 'degrees of conjunction & disjunction between two persons where the one is sane by common consent' he offers a rich existential analysis of personal alienation.

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Divided self: an existential study in sanity and madness

By: Laing, R. D.

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