The Divided Self
by R. D. Laing
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG- (Very Good Minus)/G+ (Good Plus)
- ISBN 10
- 0394422260
- ISBN 13
- 9780394422268
- Seller
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Buffalo, New York, United States
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Synopsis
Dr. Laing's first purpose is to make madness and the process of going mad comprehensible. In this, with case studies of schizophrenic patients, he succeeds brilliantly, but he does more: through a vision of sanity and madness as 'degrees of conjunction and disjunction between two persons where the one is sane by common consent' he offers a rich existential analysis of personal alienation. 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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- Bookseller
- Albion Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001457
- Title
- The Divided Self
- Author
- R. D. Laing
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG- (Very Good Minus)
- Jacket Condition
- G+ (Good Plus)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0394422260
- ISBN 13
- 9780394422268
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Place of Publication
- Westminster, Maryland, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1960
- Pages
- 237
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- X weight
- 0 lbs
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