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.DLaing’ Anthony Clare, the Guardian.
| Format |
Häftad |
| Omfång |
160 sidor |
| Språk |
Engelska |
| Förlag |
Penguin Books Ltd |
| Utgivningsdatum |
1990-04-26 |
| ISBN |
9780140134865 |
