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The Divided Self : an existential study in sanity and madness

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Pelican BooksPublication details: Harmondsworth Penguin, 1965Description: 218 p. 18 cmISBN:
  • 0140207341
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • PMC 150.1 L
Review: 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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Books Books School of Celtic Studies Room 21 - MacCana Collection PMC 150.1 L (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available (Standard Loan) 30244

Donation Ex libris Proinsias Mac Cana.

History and edition Originally published: London : Tavistock Publications, 1960.

(BIBI) Includes bibliography (p. 207-210) and index.

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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