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8%OFFR.D Laing - Sanity, Madness and the Family - 9781138687745 - V9781138687745
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Sanity, Madness and the Family

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Description for Sanity, Madness and the Family paperback. Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: JHBA; JMAF; JMF; MMJT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 131 x 199 x 21. Weight in Grams: 340.

In the late 1950s the psychiatrist R.D.Laing and psychoanalyst Aaron Esterson spent five years interviewing eleven families of female patients diagnosed as 'schizophrenic'. Sanity, Madness and the Family is the result of their work. Eleven vivid case studies, often dramatic and disturbing, reveal patterns of affection and fear, manipulation and indifference within the family. But it was the conclusions they drew from their research that caused such controversy: they suggest that some forms of mental disorder are only comprehensible within their social and family contexts; their symptoms the manifestations of people struggling to live in untenable situations.

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This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Hilary Mantel.

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Product Details

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Routledge Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
278
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781138687745
SKU
V9781138687745
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About R.D Laing
R.D. Laing (1927–1989) was one of the best-known and most controversial psychiatrists of the post-war period. After a short period as a psychiatrist in the British Army he moved to the Tavistock Institute in London in 1956, where he worked alongside leading psychotherapists such as John Bowlby and D.W. Winnicott. In 1965 he co-founded the Philadelphia Practice in London, where ... Read more

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