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An edition of The Divided Self (1959)

The divided self

an existential study in sanity and madness

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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.

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Penguin Books
Language
English
Pages
218

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Subjects
Psychiatry, Cases, clinical reports, statistics, Case studies, Schizophrenia, Existential psychotherapy, Mental illness, Schizoid personality, Pathological Psychology, Existential psychology, Medical, Nonfiction, Psychology, Cas, Études de, Psychiatrie, Schizophrénie, Schizofrenie, Self, Self psychology, Psychiatry, case studies, Statistics
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The Divided Self
2010, Penguin Group UK
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The divided self: an existential study in sanity and madness
1999, Routledge
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Das geteilte Selbst: Eine existentielle Studie über geistige Gesundheit und Wahnsinn
1991, dtv
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The divided self: an existential study in sanity and madness
1981, Penguin Books
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The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness (Pelican)
August 30, 1976, Penguin Books
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The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness (Pelican)
August 30, 1976, Penguin Books
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The Divided self: an existential study in sanity and madness
1969, Tavistock Publications
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The divided self: an existential study in sanity and madness
1969, Penguin Books
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The divided self
1969, Pantheon Books
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The divided self
1969, Pantheon Books
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The divided self: an existential study in sanity and madness
1965, Penguin Books
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The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness (Penguin Psychology)
August 30, 1965, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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The divided self: an existential study in sanity and madness
1965, Penguin Books
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The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness (Penguin Psychology)
August 30, 1965, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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The Divided self: a study of sanity and madness
1960, Tavistock
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The divided self: an existential study in sanity and madness
1960, Tavistock Publications
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The divided self: a study of sanity and madness.
1960, Tavistock Publications
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The divided self: a study of sanity and madness.
1960, Quadrangle Books
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The Divided self: an existential study in sanity and madness.
1959, Penguin Books
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Book Details

Published in

Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Baltimore

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-210) and index.

Series
Pelican book -- A734

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
157.282
Library of Congress
RC465 .L3 1965

The Physical Object

Pagination
218 p. ;
Number of pages
218

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24736884M
Internet Archive
dividedselfexis00lain
ISBN 10
0140207341
ISBN 13
9780140207347
OCLC/WorldCat
5212085

First Sentence

"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."

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