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In I960 R. D. Laing's The Divided Self was published.
A landmark book, it provided a fresh and radical understanding of the nature of schizophrenia. And it established Laing as one of the most influential intellectual figures of our time.
In Wisdom, Madness and Folly, R. D. Laing has written
an autobiography that describes and explains the making of a psychiatrist: how he arrived at the point where he wrote The Divided Self.
Laing writes of childhood, during which he felt a sense of suffocation, of being deep-programmed against living; of university, where he studied medicine and became fascinated by hypnosis; and especially of his experience as a psychiatrist in the Army and the Health Service, where he came to be deeply troubled by the
treatment of psychotic patients. For how could psychiatry be doing the opposite of what he assumed psychiatry was about if it was driving people crazy, if they were not so already, and crazier if they were?
'Movingly written, exuding that...
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Fülszöveg
In I960 R. D. Laing's The Divided Self was published.
A landmark book, it provided a fresh and radical understanding of the nature of schizophrenia. And it established Laing as one of the most influential intellectual figures of our time.
In Wisdom, Madness and Folly, R. D. Laing has written
an autobiography that describes and explains the making of a psychiatrist: how he arrived at the point where he wrote The Divided Self.
Laing writes of childhood, during which he felt a sense of suffocation, of being deep-programmed against living; of university, where he studied medicine and became fascinated by hypnosis; and especially of his experience as a psychiatrist in the Army and the Health Service, where he came to be deeply troubled by the
treatment of psychotic patients. For how could psychiatry be doing the opposite of what he assumed psychiatry was about if it was driving people crazy, if they were not so already, and crazier if they were?
'Movingly written, exuding that potent aroma of passion and persuasiveness which has characterised the best of his writings' Anthony Clare, Books and Bookmen
'Packed with the agonising experiences and moral dilemmas of a very bright and young psychiatrist beseeching life to yield up its riddles from a raw material of catatonics, schizophrenics and chronic patients' Neville Symington, Literary Review
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