The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise
Title | The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise PDF eBook |
Author | R. D. Laing |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Total Pages | 171 |
Release | 1990-04-26 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 014194174X |
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.D. Laing’ Anthony Clare, the Guardian.
The Politics of Experience
Title | The Politics of Experience PDF eBook |
Author | R.D. Laing |
Publisher | Pantheon |
Total Pages | 200 |
Release | 1983-08-12 |
Genre | Political Science |
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R.D. Laing is at his most wickedly iconoclastic in this eloquent assault on conventional morality. Unorthodox to some, brilliantly original to others, The Politics of Experience goes beyond the usual theories of mental illness and alienation, and makes a convincing case for the "madness of morality." Compelling, unsettling, consistently absorbing, The Politics of Experience is a classic of genuine importance that will "excite, enthrall, and disturb. No one who reads it will remain unaffected." (Rollo May, Saturday Review)
The Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise
Title | The Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise PDF eBook |
Author | R. D. Laing |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 155 |
Release | 1975 |
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The Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise
Title | The Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise PDF eBook |
Author | R. D. Laing |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 155 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | |
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The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise
Title | The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald D. Laing |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 155 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | |
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The Politics of Experience, a N D, the Bird of Paradise
Title | The Politics of Experience, a N D, the Bird of Paradise PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald David Laing |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers
Title | Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers PDF eBook |
Author | Stuart Brown |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Total Pages | 1246 |
Release | 2005-08-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 184371096X |
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