R.D. Laing’s The Divided Self: An Existential Study of Sanity and Madness (1965)

Authors

  • Iain Ferguson University of the West of Scotland

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11157/anzswj-vol33iss2id867

Abstract

Classic book review

References

Ferguson, I. (2017). Making sense of madness: Revisiting R. D. Laing. Critical and Radical Social Work, 6(1), 67–76. https://doi.org/10.1332/204986018X15199226335060

Ferguson, I. (2017). Politics of the mind: Marxism and mental distress. Bookmarks.

Filer, N. (2019). The heartland: Finding and losing schizophrenia. Faber and Faber.

Friedell, D. (2021). A pie every night. London Review of Books, 43(4). https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n04/ deborah-friedell/a-pie-every-night

Foucault, M. (1964). Madness and civilisation. Penguin Random House.

Goffman, E. (1968). Asylums: Essay on the social situation of mental patients and other inmates. Penguin.

Laing, R. D. (1965). The divided self: An existential study of sanity and madness. Pelican Edition.

Laing, R. D. (1967). The politics of experience and the bird of paradise. Penguin.

Laing, R. D. (1985). Wisdom, madness and folly: The making of a psychiatrist, 1937-57. Canongate.

Laing, R. D., & Esterson, A. (1970). Sanity, madness and the family. Pelican.

Mullan, B. (1995). Mad to be normal: Conversations with R. D. Laing. Free Association Books.

Sedgwick, P. (1982). Psychopolitics. Pluto Press.

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Published

2021-09-02

How to Cite

Ferguson, I. (2021). R.D. Laing’s The Divided Self: An Existential Study of Sanity and Madness (1965). Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 33(2), 56–60. https://doi.org/10.11157/anzswj-vol33iss2id867

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Classic Book Review