The Divided Self
by Laing, R D
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 conjunction and disjunction between two persons where the one is sane by common consent' he offers a rich existential analysis of personal alienation.
The outsider, estranged from himself and society, cannot experience either himself or others as 'real'. He invents a false self and with it he confronts both the outside world and his own despair. The disintegration of his real self keeps pace with the growing unreality of his false self until, in the extremes of schizophrenic breakdown, the whole personality disintegrates.
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THE DIVIDED SELF
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The divided self: a study of sanity and madness
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Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Using case studies of patients the author had worked with, this title argues 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 i Item Price
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The Divided Self - An Existential Study In Sanity and Madness
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The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
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The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness (Penguin Psychology)
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The Divided Self
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Quadrangle Books, 1960. Book. Very Good+ Previous owner's neat ink name and stamps. Hardcover. 1st Edition. A very nice copy of the first American edition of Laing's classic work. Laid in is a ticket to a Laing lecture in 1967. Previous owner was noted American psychologist and anthropologist Henry Guze, a founder of the American Academy of Psychotherapists,… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Divided Self: A Study Of Sanity and Madness
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THE DIVIDED SELF
by R. D. Laing
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The Divided Self: Selected Works of R D Laing: Vol 1
by Laing, R. D
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