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The Divided Self
  • Published: 5 March 2010
  • ISBN: 9780141189376
  • Imprint: Peng. Mod. Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 218
  • RRP: $26.99

The Divided Self

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Laing's radical approach to insanity offered a rich existential analysis of personal alienation and made him a cult figure in the 1960s, yet his work was most significant for its humane attitude, which put the patient back at the centre of treatment.

R.D. Laing (1927-1989), one of the best-known psychiatrists of modern times, was born in Glasgow, Scotland. R.D. Laing's writings range from books on social theory to verse, as well as numerous articles and reviews in scientific journals and the popular press. His many publications include The Divided Self, Self and Others, Interpersonal Perception, The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise, and Madness and Folly.
If you enjoyed The Divided Self, you might like Sigmund Freud's The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.
'One of the twentieth century's most influential psychotherapists'
Guardian
'Laing challenged the psychiatric orthodoxy of his time ... an icon of the 1960s counter-culture'
The Times
  • Published: 5 March 2010
  • ISBN: 9780141189376
  • Imprint: Peng. Mod. Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 218
  • RRP: $26.99
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