Ronald David Laing

An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness

The Divided Self

Aaron Esterson

Families of Schizophrenics

Sanity, Madness and the Family

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

This volume traces the modern critical and performance history of this play, one of Shakespeare's most-loved and most-performed comedies. The essay focus on such modern concerns as feminism, deconstruction, textual theory, and queer theory.

The Politics of the Family, and Other Essays

An Entertainment in Conversation and Verse

Do You Love Me?

H. Phillipson

A. R. Lee

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A Theory and a Method of Research

Interpersonal Perception

Knots

A psychiatrist studies the patterns of social interaction, paying special attention to the relationship between individual experience and behavior

Self and Others

Mi ami? Nuove situazioni intrapsichiche e interpersonali

Richard Isadore Evans

Emma pretends that she and her dolls spend a day at school.

The Man and His Ideas

R. D. Laing

"This book is an exploration of some aspects of the relations between persons. The first part examines different modes of experience as forms of relationships. In the second part, some key patterns of interaction are considered, especially those that characterize certain extreme forms of disturbance or breakdown of relationships. The author has drawn on diverse sources, on psychoanalysis, phenomenology, on American studies of families, and on the insights of drama and the novel. His study includes a detailed critique of a technical psychoanalytic paper on fantasy; a close examination of the experience of Raskolnikov [in Dostoyevsky's Crime and punishment] before his crime, and of his relations with his mother and sister; an analysis of aspects of Genet's play The Balcony, and a concise summary of the "double bind" theory. As in his other works, Dr. Laing here attempts to focus on specific facets of the problem, in the light of a theory that comprehends these facets within a non-fragmented vision of human relations. Only those who are specialists in the varieties of "theories" brought to bear on human relations can judge how difficult is this task. This is a thoroughly revised edition of a book originally published in 1962, but barely known in America at the time. This edition makes available one of R. D. Laing's major works, a book to be read alongside The Divided Self."--Dust jacket.

An Essay in Feelings, Facts, and Fantasy

The Facts of Life

Herinneringen van de Britse psychiater (geb. 1927) aan zijn jeugd- en studiejaren en de begintijd van zijn loopbaan

The Making of a Psychiatrist 1927-1957

Wisdom, Madness and Folly

Sanity, Madness and the Family; Families of Schizophrenics [by] R.D. Laing [and] A. Esterson

By R. D. Laing and A. Esterson

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.

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