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Book Synopsis Knots: Selected Works of RD Laing: Vol 7 by : RD Laing
Download or read book Knots: Selected Works of RD Laing: Vol 7 written by RD Laing and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1970, Knots consists of a series of dialogue-scenarios that can be read as poems or brief plays, each complete in itself. Each chapter describes a different kind of relationship: the "knots" of the title: bonds of love, dependency, uncertainty, jealousy. The dialogues could be those between lovers, between parents and children, between analysts and patients or all of these merged together. Each brilliantly demonstrates Laing's insights into the intricacies of human relationships.
Book Synopsis Self and Others by : Ronald David Laing
Download or read book Self and Others written by Ronald David Laing and published by Viking Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A psychiatrist studies the patterns of social interaction, paying special attention to the relationship between individual experience and behavior
Book Synopsis Self and Others: Selected Works of R D Laing Vol 2 by : R D Laing
Download or read book Self and Others: Selected Works of R D Laing Vol 2 written by R D Laing and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1961 this book is divided into two parts. In the first Laing critiques the Kleinian view of unconsciou phantasy, as developed by Susan Sutherland Isaacs. He emphasizes the overwhelming presence of social phantasy systems. In Part 2, Laing discusses the extent to which an individual is or is not invested in their own actions, using ideas drawn from Martin Buber and Sartre
Book Synopsis Portrait of the Psychiatrist as a Young Man by : Allan Beveridge
Download or read book Portrait of the Psychiatrist as a Young Man written by Allan Beveridge and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RD Laing remains one of the most famous psychiatrists of the last 50 years. In the 1960s he enjoyed enormous popularity and received much publicity for his controversial views challenging the psychiatric orthodoxy. He championed the rights of the patient, and challenged the often inhumane methods of treating the mentally ill. Based on a wealth of previously unexamined archives relating to his private papers and clinical notes, Portrait of the Psychiatrist as a Young Man sheds new light on RD Laing, and in particular his early formative years - a crucial but largely overlooked period in his life. The first half of the book considers Laing's intellectual journey through the world of ideas and his development as a psychiatric theorist. An analysis of his notebooks and personal library reveals Laing's engagement not only with psychiatric theory, but also with a wide range of other disciplines, such as philosophy, literature, and religion. This part of the book considers how this shaped Laing's writing about madness and his evolution as a clinician. The second half draws on a rich and completely unexplored collection of Laing's clinical notes, which detail his encounters with patients in his early years as a psychiatrist, firstly in the British Army, subsequently in the psychiatric hospitals of Glasgow, and finally in the Tavistock Clinic in London. These notes reveal what Laing was actually doing in clinical practice, and how theory interacted with therapy. The majority of patients who were to appear in Laing's first two books, The Divided Self and The Self and Others have been identified from these records, and this volume provides a fascinating account of how the published case histories compare to the original notes. There is a considerable mythology surrounding Laing, partly created by himself and partly by subsequent commentators. By a careful examination of primary sources, Allan Beveridge, both a psychiatrist and an historian, examines the many mythological narratives about Laing and provide a critical but not unsympathetic account of this colourful and contradictory thinker, who addressed questions about the nature of madness which are still being asked today. This book will be of interest to mental health workers and social historians alike as well as anybody interested in the philosophy of psychiatry.
Book Synopsis Selected Works of R.D. Laing by : R. D. Laing
Download or read book Selected Works of R.D. Laing written by R. D. Laing and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998-09 with total page 1324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set reprints seven of Laing's major works, originally published between 1960 and 1971 and out of print for many years. Laing was an existential psychiatrist who offered a radical critique of abnormal behaviour and social and medical models for its treatment. He was critical of the extent to which psychoanalytic concepts may conceal or distort human experience and of the tendency to label the patient "sick" as opposed to looking at "sickness" in the patient's family or in society. It was Laing who argued that schizophrenia is not an illness but a label for another kind of problematic experience and behaviour. Laing's ideas have been particularly popular among those who object to the hypocrisy of society and its treatment of those considered to be abnormal. Available also as individual volumes, this set offers the ideal opportunity to replace missing or damaged volumes. Laing's works included in this set are: * Volume One: The Divided Self:0-415-19818-6: 241pp: £45.00 * Volume Two: Self and Others: 0-415-19819-4: 186pp: £45.00 * Volume Three: Reason and Violence: 0-415-19820-8: 184pp: £45.00 * Volume Four: Sanity and Madness in the Family: 0-415-19821-6: 284pp: £45.00 * Volume Five: The Politics of the Family: 0-415-19822-4: 142pp: £45.00 * Volume Six: Interpersonal Perception: 0-415-19823-2: 189pp: £45.00 * Volume Seven: Knots: 0-415-19824-0: 94pp: £45.00
Download or read book Knots written by Ronald David Laing and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis R.D. Laing and the Paths of Anti-psychiatry by : Zbigniew Kotowicz
Download or read book R.D. Laing and the Paths of Anti-psychiatry written by Zbigniew Kotowicz and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zbigniew Kotowicz re-examines Laing's work in the context of the anti-psychiatry movement. He provides a much needed reassessment of his radical ideas and their significance for psychotherapy and psychiatry today.
Book Synopsis R. D. Laing & Anti-psychiatry by : Robert Boyers
Download or read book R. D. Laing & Anti-psychiatry written by Robert Boyers and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise by : R. D. Laing
Download or read book The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise written by R. D. Laing and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1990-04-26 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Divided Self written by R. D. Laing and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-01-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Divided Self, R.D. Laing's groundbreaking exploration of the nature of madness, illuminated the nature of mental illness and made the mysteries of the mind comprehensible to a wide audience. First published in 1960, this watershed work aimed to make madness comprehensible, and in doing so revolutionized the way we perceive mental illness. Using case studies of patients he had worked with, psychiatrist R. D. Laing argued 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. 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. Includes an introduction by Professor Anthony S. David. '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
Book Synopsis The Crucible of Experience by : Daniel Burston
Download or read book The Crucible of Experience written by Daniel Burston and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-19 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the great rebels of psychiatry, R. D. Laing challenged prevailing models of madness and the nature and limits of psychiatric authority. In this brief and lucid book, Laing’s widely praised biographer distills the essence of Laing’s vision, which was religious and philosophical as well as psychological. The Crucible of Experience reveals Laing’s philosophical debts to existentialism and phenomenology in his theories of madness and sanity, family theory and family therapy. Daniel Burston offers the first detailed account of Laing’s practice as a therapist and of his relationships—often contentious—with his friends and sometime disciples. Burston carefully differentiates between Laing and “Laingians,” who were often clearer, more confident, and more simplistic than their teacher. While he examines Laing’s theories of madness, Burston focuses most provocatively on Laing’s views of sanity and normality and on his recognition, toward the end of his life, of the essential place of holiness in human experience. In a powerful last chapter, Burston shows that Laing foresaw the present commercialization of medicine and asked pointed questions about what the meaning of sanity and the future of psychotherapy in such a world could be. In this, as in other matters, Laing’s questions of a generation ago remain questions for our time.
Download or read book Sonnets written by Ronald David Laing and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1980 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mad to Be Normal written by Robert Mullan and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last two years of R.D. Laing's life, he recorded hundreds of hours of conversation with Robert Mullan. Laing was determined to be as frank and open as possible, and equally determined to 'put the record straight'. This book is the memoir he never lived to write. --
Book Synopsis Reason and Violence by : D. R. Laing
Download or read book Reason and Violence written by D. R. Laing and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Selected Works of R. D. Laing by : R. D. Laing
Download or read book Selected Works of R. D. Laing written by R. D. Laing and published by . This book was released on 2009-04-29 with total page 1324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set reprints seven of Laing's major works, originally published between 1960 and 1971 and out of print for many years. Laing was an existential psychiatrist who offered a radical critique of abnormal behaviour and social and medical models for its treatment. He was critical of the extent to which psychoanalytic concepts may conceal or distort human experience and of the tendency to label the patient "sick" as opposed to looking at "sickness" in the patient's family or in society. It was Laing who argued that schizophrenia is not an illness but a label for another kind of problematic experience and behaviour. Laing's ideas have been particularly popular among those who object to the hypocrisy of society and its treatment of those considered to be abnormal. Available also as individual volumes, this set offers the ideal opportunity to replace missing or damaged volumes. Laing's works included in this set are: * Volume One: The Divided Self:0-415-19818-6: 241pp: £45.00 * Volume Two: Self and Others: 0-415-19819-4: 186pp: £45.00 * Volume Three: Reason and Violence: 0-415-19820-8: 184pp: £45.00 * Volume Four: Sanity and Madness in the Family: 0-415-19821-6: 284pp: £45.00 * Volume Five: The Politics of the Family: 0-415-19822-4: 142pp: £45.00 * Volume Six: Interpersonal Perception: 0-415-19823-2: 189pp: £45.00 * Volume Seven: Knots: 0-415-19824-0: 94pp: £45.00
Download or read book Self and Others written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Madness, Heresy, and the Rumor of Angels by : Seth Farber
Download or read book Madness, Heresy, and the Rumor of Angels written by Seth Farber and published by Open Court Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of seven true stories of individuals insulted and injured by the mental health system, individuals who then fought back, broke free, and rebuilt their lives. Madness, Heresy, and the Rumor of Angels is a work in the tradition of Thomas Szasz, R. D. Laing, and Erving Goffman, a challenge to the delusional belief-system known as psychiatry, and a protest against its appalling crimes.
