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Uses case studies and existential philosophy to illustrate the nature of schizophrenia.
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Psychiatry, Cases, clinical reports, statistics, Case studies, Schizophrenia, Existential psychotherapy, Mental illness, Schizoid personality, Pathological Psychology, Existential psychology, Medical, Nonfiction, Psychology, Cas, Études de, Psychiatrie, Schizophrénie, Schizofrenie, Self, Self psychology, Psychiatry, case studies, StatisticsShowing 4 featured editions. View all 19 editions?
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The divided self: an existential study in sanity and madness
1981, Penguin Books
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The divided self: an existential study in sanity and madness
1965, Penguin Books
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The divided self: an existential study in sanity and madness
1965, Penguin Books
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Edition Notes
Also published in series: Studies in existential analysis and phenomenology.
Bibliography: p. [207]-210.
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"The term schizoid refers to an individual the totality of whose experience is split in two main ways: in the first place, there is a rent in his relation with his world and, in the second, there is a disruption of his relation with himself."
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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.
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