The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise - Softcover

Laing, R. D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140134867 ISBN 13: 9780140134865

Verlag: Penguin, 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 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.

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Born in 1927, R.D. Laing was a Scottish psychiatrist whose groundbreaking writing focused on mental illness. His work was particularly centred on the causes, treatment and experience of psychosis. He died in 1989.

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• Verlag: Penguin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1990
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0140134867
• ISBN 13: 9780140134865
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160
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