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The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness (Penguin Psychology) Paperback - 1990
by Laing, R
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- Title The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness (Penguin Psychology)
- Author Laing, R
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin, London
- Publication date 1990
- Features Bibliography, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # 9761583
- ISBN 9780140135374 / 0140135375
- Weight 0.36 lbs (0.16 kg)
- Dimensions 7.78 x 5.12 x 0.57 in (19.76 x 13.00 x 1.45 cm)
- Age range 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Category Psychology
- Dewey Decimal Code 616.898
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Summary
Dr. Laing's first purpose is to make madness and the process of going mad comprehensible. In this, with case studies of schizophrenic patients, he succeeds brilliantly, but he does more: through a vision of sanity and madness as 'degrees of conjunction and disjunction between two persons where the one is sane by common consent' he offers a rich existential analysis of personal alienation.
The outsider, estranged from himself and society, cannot experience either himself or others as 'real'. He invents a false self and with it he confronts both the outside world and his own despair. The disintegration of his real self keeps pace with the growing unreality of his false self until, in the extremes of schizophrenic breakdown, the whole personality disintegrates.
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First line
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.
