The Politics of Experience by Rd Laing

The Politics of Experience by Rd Laing

A brilliantly original book from one of the 20th century's most influentialpsychiatrists that goes beyond the usual theories of mental illness and alienation to make a convincing case for the "madness of morality."

R.D. Laing is at his most wickedly iconoclastic in this eloquent assault on conventional morality.Compelling, unsettling, consistently absorbing, The Politics of Experience is a classic of genuine importance that will "excite, enthrall, and disturb. No one who reads it will remain unaffected." (Rollo May, Saturday Review)

Laing was a psychiatrist from Scotland who wrote extensively about mental disease, particularly psychosis. Laing's views on the origins and treatment of major mental illness, which were informed by existential philosophy, went against psychiatric orthodoxy at the time by accepting the reported sentiments of the individual patient or client as genuine representations of lived experience rather than just as symptoms of a distinct or underlying condition. Laing went to Glasgow University to study medicine. In 1989, he passed away.

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ISBN 13	9780394714752
ISBN 10	039471475X
Title	The Politics of Experience
Author	Rd Laing
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1983-08-12
Number of pages	192
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