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The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness Paperback - 1965
by Laing, R. D
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- Title The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
- Author Laing, R. D
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Date 1965-08-29
- Bookseller's Inventory # Q-0140207341
- ISBN 9780140207347 / 0140207341
- Weight 0.33 lbs (0.15 kg)
- Dewey Decimal Code 616.898
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Summary
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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The term schizoid refers to an individual the totality of whose experience is split in two main ways: in the first place, there is a rent in his relation with his world and, in the second, there is a disruption of his relation with himself.