The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness Paperback - 1965
by R. D. Laing
Summary
The outsider, estranged from himself and society, cannot experience either himself or others as 'real'. He invents a false self and with it he confronts both the outside world and his own despair. The disintegration of his real self keeps pace with the growing unreality of his false self until, in the extremes of schizophrenic breakdown, the whole personality disintegrates.
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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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- Title The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
- Author R. D. Laing
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, London
- Date August 30, 1965
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780140135374 / 0140135375
- Weight 0.36 lbs (0.16 kg)
- Dimensions 7.78 x 5.12 x 0.57 in (19.76 x 13.00 x 1.45 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Dewey Decimal Code 616.898
Media reviews
Philip toynbee in the Observer
"It is a study that makes all other works I have read on schizophrenia seem fragmentary. . . . The author brings, through his vision and perception, that particular touch of genius which causes one to say Yes, I have always known that, why have I never thought of it before?'"
Journal of Analytical Psychology
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