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The Divided Self

by R. D. Laing

  • FINISHED
  • Finished March 2021
  • First published 1960

psychology psychiatry classics

Laing offers a view of schizophrenia and psychosis as understandable responses to a person’s situation.   He uses case histories to argue that clinicians should try to grasp the patient’s own experience.