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an existential study in sanity and madness

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An edition of The Divided Self (1959)

The divided self

an existential study in sanity and madness

by

  • ★★★★ ★ 4.50 ·
  • 2 Ratings
  • 41 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 4 Have read

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 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.

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Penguin Books
Language
English
Pages
218

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Subjects
Psychiatry, Cases, clinical reports, statistics, Case studies, Schizophrenia, Existential psychotherapy, Mental illness, Schizoid personality, Pathological Psychology, Existential psychology, Medical, Nonfiction, Psychology, Cas, Études de, Psychiatrie, Schizophrénie, Schizofrenie, Self, Self psychology, Psychiatry, case studies, Statistics

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1969, Pantheon Books
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1965, Penguin Books
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Harmondsworth, Eng

Edition Notes

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [207]-210.

Series
Pelican books

Classifications

Library of Congress
RC465 .L3 1965

The Physical Object

Pagination
218 p.
Number of pages
218

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL21645304M
Internet Archive
dividedselfexist1959lain
ISBN 10
0140207341
Library Thing
56532
Goodreads
1457427

First Sentence

"The term schizoid refers to an individual the totality of whose experience is split in two main ways: in the first place, there is a rent in his relation with his world and, in the second, there is a disruption of his relation with himself."

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