The Divided Self - An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness

Informationen zum Autor Born in 1927, R.D. Laing was a Scottish psychiatrist whose groundbreaking writing focused on mental illness. His work was particularly centred on the causes, treatment and experience of psychosis. He died in 1989. Klappentext R.D. Laing, one of the best-known psychiatrists of modern times, was born in Glasgow in 1927. 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, Madness and Folly. R.D. Laing died in 1989. Anthony David graduated in medicine from Glasgow University in 1980. After training in neurology he switched to psychiatry at the Maudsley & Bethlem Hospitals. He is currently Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London. He has edited several books including The Self in Neuroscience and Psychiatry (2003) with T. Kircher, and Insight and Psychosis (2nd ed., 2004) with X. Amador, and is author of over 350 publications in peer-reviewed medical and scientific journals. Zusammenfassung Using case studies of patients the author had worked with, this title argues 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.

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• Authors: Anthony S. David, R Laing, R D Laing, R. Laing, R. D. Laing, R. D. (Ronald David) Laing, R.D. Laing, Ronald D. Laing
• Assisted by: Anthony S. David (Introduction)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.01.2010
• EAN: 9780141189376
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118937-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Abnormal psychology