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- Selected Works of R D Laing
2012
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Originally published in 1970*, Knots* consists of a series of dialogue-scenarios that can be read as poems or brief plays, each complete in itself. Each chapter describes a different kind of relationship: the "knots" of the title: bonds of love, dependency, uncertainty, jealousy. The dialogues could be those between lovers, between parents and children, between analysts and patients or all of these merged together. Each brilliantly demonstrates Laing's insights into the intricacies of huma...
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- The CBC Massey Lectures
2012
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In his 1968 CBC Massey Lectures R. D. Laing discusses how and why we value society's notions of family over our own. Using concepts of schizophrenia, R.D. Laing demonstrates that we tend to invalidate the subjective and experiential and accept the proper societal view of what should occur within the family. A psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, Laing worked at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations. His books include The Self and Others and The Politics of Experience.
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- Routledge Classics
2016
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In the late 1950s the psychiatrist R.D.Laing and psychoanalyst Aaron Esterson spent five years interviewing eleven families of female patients diagnosed as 'schizophrenic'. Sanity, Madness and the Family is the result of their work. Eleven vivid case studies, often dramatic and disturbing, reveal patterns of affection and fear, manipulation and indifference within the family. But it was the conclusions they drew from their research that caused such controversy: they suggest that s...
Interpersonal Perception: Selected Works of R D Laing Vol 6
A Theory and a Method of Research
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- Selected Works of R D Laing
2027
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The central theme of this study is the experiences, perceptions and actions that occur when two human beings are engaged in a meaningful encounter. Alothough dyadic reltionships represent perhaps the most universal and frequent type of interaction between people, at the time that this book was originally published in 1966, they had received comparatively little attention from psychologists. The Interpersonal Perception Method (IPM) which the authors devised is designed to measure and provi...
Available Mar 30, 2027
Reason and Violence: Selected Works of R. D. Laing Volume 3
A Decade of Sartre's Philosophy 1950–1960
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- Selected Works of R D Laing
2027
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This work, originally published in 1964 with a foreword by Jean-Paul Sartre and as a second edition with an extended introduction in 1971, has been influential in presenting to the English reader aspects of Sartre's thought embodied in his three major books published between 1950 and 1960. The three books discussed - Saint Genet, Comédien et Martyr; Questions de Méthode; and Critique de la Raison Dialectique - span the distance from individual biography ...
Available Feb 28, 2027
1990
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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 o...
The Divided Self
An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
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- Penguin Modern Classics
2010
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The Divided Self, R.D. Laing's groundbreaking exploration of the nature of madness, illuminated the nature of mental illness and made the mysteries of the mind comprehensible to a wide audience.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 c...
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- Selected Works of R D Laing
2013
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Originally published in 1961 this book is divided into two parts. In the first Laing critiques the Kleinian view of unconsciou phantasy, as developed by Susan Sutherland Isaacs. He emphasizes the overwhelming presence of social phantasy systems. In Part 2, Laing discusses the extent to which an individual is or is not invested in their own actions, using ideas drawn from Martin Buber and Sartre
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- Selected Works of R D Laing
2018
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Originally published in 1969, based on the talks R. D. Laing gave in 1967 and 68, this book was intended by the author to evoke questions rather than provide answers. Using concepts of schizophrenia, R.D. Laing demonstrates that we tend to invalidate the subjective and experiential and accept the proper societal view of what should occur within the family.
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- Radical Thinkers
2015
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A revolutionary compilation of speeches which produced a political groundwork for many of the radical movements in the following decadesThe now legendary Dialectics of Liberation congress, held in London in 1967, was a unique expression of the politics of dissent. Existential psychiatrists, Marxist intellectuals, anarchists, and political leaders met to discuss key social issues. Edited by David Cooper, The Dialectics of Liberation compiles interv...
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- The CBC Massey Lectures
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