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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.

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    Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
    Publication Date: 26/04/1990
    ISBN13: 9780140134865, 978-0140134865
    ISBN10: 0140134867
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    Health & Wellbeing Popular psychology Phenomenology and Existentialism Self Help & Mindfulness

    Description

    Book Synopsis

    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.

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