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The divided self : an existential study in sanity and madness

By Ronald David , Laing

Book information

Publisher
Penguin
Year
2010
ISBN
9780141189376, 0141189371
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
968 kB (991708 bytes)
Series
Penguin modern classics
Edition
New ed
Pages
218\0
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
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Description

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 'divided self', or the tension between the two personas within us: one our authentic, private identity, and the other the false, 'sane' self that we present to the world.

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