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Author : R. D. Laing,A. Esterson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:900363000
Author : Ronald David Laing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1350151631
Author : R.D Laing,Aaron Esterson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781315473871
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. Sanity, Madness and the Family was met with widespread hostility by the psychiatric profession on its first publication, where the prevailing view was to treat psychosis as a medical problem to be solved. Yet it has done a great deal to draw attention to the complex and contested nature of psychosis. Above all, Laing and Esterson thought that if you understood the patient's world their apparent madness would become socially intelligible. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Hilary Mantel.
Author : Ronald David Laing,Aaron Esterson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Schizophrenia
ISBN : UOM:49015000404112
With the help of his good friend and her three-legged dog, Leftovers, ten-year-old Keath learns how to handle the class bully and deal with being the only white boy in his class.
Author : Aaron Esterson
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015000885874
Author : Allan V. Horwitz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780190907860
"Between Sanity and Madness: Mental Illness from Homer to Neuroscience traces the extensive array of answers that various groups have provided to questions about the nature of mental illness and its boundaries with sanity. What distinguishes mental illnesses from other sorts of devalued conditions and from normality? Should medical, religious, psychological, legal, or no authority at all respond to the mentally ill? Why do some people become mad? What treatments might help them recover? Despite general agreement across societies regarding definitions about the pole of madness, huge disparities exist on where dividing lines should be placed between it and sanity and even if there is any clear demarcation at all. Various groups have provided answers to these puzzles that are both widely divergent and surprisingly similar to current understandings"--
Author : R. D. Laing
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1990-04-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780141941745
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.
Author : R. Laing
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780141962085
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.
Author : William Saroyan
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811211290
"What a delight to find seventeen of Saroyan's uncollected stories within one cover!....charming tales, all blessed with Saroyan's pixieish imagination and magical writing style....Even today they read as though they have been freshly minted from the Saroyan treasure house. A discovery for those who love Saroyan's fiction; his spark is still wonderfully alive." --Library Journal
Author : Ronald David Laing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Psychology, Pathological
ISBN : OCLC:681175980
Author : Ronald David Laing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Schizophrenia
ISBN : OCLC:1080767269
Author : Clancy Sigal
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480437074
DIVDIVA riotously funny saga of institutional insanity, based on the author’s association with the notorious psychiatrist R. D. Laing/divDIV Despite massive literary success, Sidney Bell feels perpetually unsatisfied and suffers unexplained physical ailments. Desperate to straighten out his twisted life, anxiety-ridden Sid seeks help from experimental psychiatrist Dr. Willie Last, whose therapeutic methods involve hallucinatory drugs such as LSD and trading places with his patients. After a tumultuous first trip, Sid ends up at Conolly House, a radical hospital for young schizophrenics where he serves as a “barefoot doctor.” From there, Sigal launches readers on a sardonic, rambling journey through a fantastic breed of insanity./divDIV With his freewheeling, ecstatic prose, Sigal spins a manic psychological quest into a telling portrait of a society in the grips of a turbulent decade. Zone of the Interior is a subversive and uproarious search for clarity and comfort in an increasingly mad world, grounded by an unforgettable narrator./divDIV/div/div
Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307833105
Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 - from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such people began to be considered a threat, asylums were first built, and walls were erected between the "insane" and the rest of humanity.
Author : Nassir Ghaemi
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781101517598
The New York Times bestseller “A glistening psychological history, faceted largely by the biographies of eight famous leaders . . .” —The Boston Globe “A provocative thesis . . . Ghaemi’s book deserves high marks for original thinking.” —The Washington Post “Provocative, fascinating.” —Salon.com Historians have long puzzled over the apparent mental instability of great and terrible leaders alike: Napoleon, Lincoln, Churchill, Hitler, and others. In A First-Rate Madness, Nassir Ghaemi, director of the Mood Disorders Program at Tufts Medical Center, offers a myth-shattering exploration of the powerful connections between mental illness and leadership and sets forth a controversial, compelling thesis: The very qualities that mark those with mood disorders also make for the best leaders in times of crisis. From the importance of Lincoln's "depressive realism" to the lackluster leadership of exceedingly sane men as Neville Chamberlain, A First-Rate Madness overturns many of our most cherished perceptions about greatness and the mind.
Author : Lori Schiller,Amanda Bennett
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0446549355
Moving, harrowing, and ultimately uplifting, Lori Schiller's memoir is a classic testimony to the ravages of mental illness and the power of perseverance and courage. At seventeen Lori Schiller was the perfect child-the only daughter of an affluent, close-knit family. Six years later she made her first suicide attempt, then wandered the streets of New York City dressed in ragged clothes, tormenting voices crying out in her mind. Lori Schiller had entered the horrifying world of full-blown schizophrenia. She began an ordeal of hospitalizations, halfway houses, relapses, more suicide attempts, and constant, withering despair. But against all odds, she survived. In this personal account, she tells how she did it, taking us not only into her own shattered world, but drawing on the words of the doctors who treated her and family members who suffered with her.
