Sanity, Madness and the Family
Title | Sanity, Madness and the Family PDF eBook |
Author | R. D. Laing |
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Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1982 |
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Sanity, Madness an the Family
Title | Sanity, Madness an the Family PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald David Laing |
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Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1976 |
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Sanity, Madness and the Family
Title | Sanity, Madness and the Family PDF eBook |
Author | R.D Laing |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 205 |
Release | 2016-10-04 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 1315473879 |
In the late 1950s the psychiatrist R.D.Laing and psychoanalyst Aaron Esterson spent five years interviewing eleven families of female patients diagnosed as 'schizophrenic'. Sanity, Madness and the Family is the result of their work. Eleven vivid case studies, often dramatic and disturbing, reveal patterns of affection and fear, manipulation and indifference within the family. But it was the conclusions they drew from their research that caused such controversy: they suggest that some forms of mental disorder are only comprehensible within their social and family contexts; their symptoms the manifestations of people struggling to live in untenable situations. Sanity, Madness and the Family was met with widespread hostility by the psychiatric profession on its first publication, where the prevailing view was to treat psychosis as a medical problem to be solved. Yet it has done a great deal to draw attention to the complex and contested nature of psychosis. Above all, Laing and Esterson thought that if you understood the patient's world their apparent madness would become socially intelligible. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Hilary Mantel.
The Leaves of Spring
Title | The Leaves of Spring PDF eBook |
Author | Aaron Esterson |
Publisher | Penguin Group |
Total Pages | 334 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | Psychology |
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The Divided Self
Title | The Divided Self PDF eBook |
Author | R. Laing |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Total Pages | 240 |
Release | 2010-01-28 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 0141962089 |
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.
Madness in the Family
Title | Madness in the Family PDF eBook |
Author | William Saroyan |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | 162 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780811211291 |
"What a delight to find seventeen of Saroyan's uncollected stories within one cover!....charming tales, all blessed with Saroyan's pixieish imagination and magical writing style....Even today they read as though they have been freshly minted from the Saroyan treasure house. A discovery for those who love Saroyan's fiction; his spark is still wonderfully alive." --Library Journal
Sanity, Madness, and the Family
Title | Sanity, Madness, and the Family PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald David Laing |
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Total Pages | 296 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | Schizophrenia |
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With the help of his good friend and her three-legged dog, Leftovers, ten-year-old Keath learns how to handle the class bully and deal with being the only white boy in his class.