Interpersonal Perception

Health, Fitness & Dieting

LAING, R.D.

Psychology & Counseling

HarperCollins (paper)

Subtitled "The Making of a Psychiatrist, " this remarkable autobiography charts the subtle horrors of Laing's own upbringing in a resolutely "respectable" Scottish family in the 1940s. The author's lucid and witty prose offers some unforgettable personal experiences and a host of cultural, political and professional insights as he reflects on the growing unease he came to feel in his role as psychiatrist in a society "destroying itself by violence masquerading as love."

Wisdom, Madness and Folly: The Making of a Psychiatrist

McGraw=Hill

Subtitled "The Making of a Psychiatrist, " this remarkable autobiography charts the subtle horrors of Laing's own upbringing in a resolutely "respectable" Scottish family in the 1940s. The author's lucid and witty prose offers some unforgettable personal experiences and a host of cultural, political and professional insights as he reflects on the growing unease he came to feel in his role as psychiatrist in a society "destroying itself by violence masquerading as love."

Wisdom, Madness and Folly, the Making of a Psychiatrist

Medical Books

McGraw-Hill Book Co.

This popular book is intact and completely readable with no marks on any of the pages. Why pay for new?

THE POLITICS OF EXPERIENCE AND THE BIRD OF PARADISE

Self-Help

Personal Transformation

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Do You Love Me?: An Entertainment in Conversation ; Verse.

Penguin??Books

Non Fiction. Psychology. Schizophrenia. Split Personality. Disorders

Sanity, Madness and the Family: Families of Schizophrenics

Esterson, Aaron

Self and Others

A psychiatrist studies the patterns of social interaction, paying special attention to the relationship between individual experience and behavior

Politics of Experience

In ‘The Politics of Experience’ and the visionary ‘Bird of Paradise’, R.D. Laing shows how the straitjacket of conformity imposed on us all leads to intense feelings of alienation and a tragic waste of human potential. He throws into question the notion of normality, examines schizophrenia and psychotherapy, transcendence and ‘us and them’ thinking, and illustrates his ideas with a remarkable case history of a ten-day psychosis. ‘We are bemused and crazed creatures,’ Laing suggests. This outline of ‘a thoroughly self-conscious and self-critical human account of man’ represents a major attempt to understand our deepest dilemmas and sketch in solutions. ‘Everyone in contemporary psychiatry owes something to R.D. Laing’ Anthony Clare, the Guardian.

Politics Of Experience

Penguin Uk

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.

The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness (Penguin Psychology)

Mental Health

The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness

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