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The Divided Self

By R. Laing

The Divided Self Medicine

The Divided Self

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
224
Release Date:
1990-11-22
Publication Date:
1965-08-30
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0140135375
ISBN13:
9780140135374
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
174 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
15 cm

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