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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.

The Politics of Experience and The Bird of

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 26 April 1990
      ISBN-13 9780140134865
      978-0140134865
      ISBN-10 0140134867
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      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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