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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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLaing's radical approach to insanity offered a rich existential analysis of personal alienation and made him a cult figure in the 1960s, yet his work was most significant for its humane attitude, which put the patient back at the centre of treatment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncludes an introduction by Professor Anthony S. David.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One of the twentieth century's most influential psychotherapists' \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Laing challenged the psychiatric orthodoxy of his time ... an icon of the 1960s counter-culture' \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56224393560437,"sku":"9780141189376","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780141189376_55e0a188-cc3c-48b9-948b-a86702b1726c.jpg?v=1786011578"},{"product_id":"9781138687745","title":"Sanity, Madness and the Family","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the late 1950s the psychiatrist R.D.Laing and psychoanalyst Aaron Esterson spent five years interviewing eleven families of female patients diagnosed as 'schizophrenic'. Their question was: are the experience and behaviour that psychiatrists take as signs of schizophrenia more socially intelligible than supposed? \u003ci\u003eSanity, Madness and the Family\u003c\/i\u003e is the result of their work. Eleven vivid interviews, often dramatic and disturbing, reveal patterns of affection and hatred, manipulation and indifference within the family.\u003c\/p\u003eThis Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Hilary Mantel.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":56296510062965,"sku":"9781138687745","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":57688243339637,"sku":"9781138462045","price":210.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781138687745.jpg?v=1792686192"},{"product_id":"interpersonal-perception-selected-works-of-r-d-laing-vol-6","title":"Interpersonal Perception: Selected Works of R D Laing Vol 6","description":"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 provide understanding of the conjunctions, and disjuntions of 2 individuals in respect of a range of key issues with which they may be concerned. Most of the material presented centres around the husband and wife relations, but the application of the method extends to all other 2 person situations, as well as to many aspects of 'we-they' relations. The first part of the book is concerned with theoretical explorations; the second with the application of the IPM illustrated by a number of examples.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57679968469365,"sku":"9781041541783","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"reason-and-violence-selected-works-of-r-d-laing-volume-3","title":"Reason and Violence: Selected Works R D Laing Vol 3","description":"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 to the basic theory of groups and social organization: from Saint Genet, perhaps the most penetrating attempt by one man to understand the life of another living man, to the Critique, which seeks to establish the dialectical bases for a structural and historical anthropology. This body of thought represents more than another synthesis of social theories and the insights of individual psychologies; it is the contribution of one of the most radical thinkers of the 20th century to a revolution in man's understanding of himself.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57679973745013,"sku":"9781041545583","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-r-d-laing.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}