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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.
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The Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise, Ronald D. Laing
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- Released
- 1990
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Ronald D. Laing
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Released
- 1990
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 160
- ISBN10
- 0140134867
- ISBN13
- 9780140134865
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Political Science & Politics, Psychological Topics, Philosophical Topics, Politics, Philosophy, Science, Psychology, Sociology, Psychiatry
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- 4.05 out of 5
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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.