R.D. Laing and the Paths of Anti-Psychiatry Contributor(s): Kotowicz, Zbigniew (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415116112 ISBN-13: 9780415116114 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $42.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1997 Annotation: The radical and visionary ideas of R.D. Laing revolutionized thinking about psychiatric practice and the meaning of madness. Concentrating on his most productive decade the author provides a reasoned critique of Laing's theoretical writings, investigates the influences on his thinking such as phenomenology, existentialism and American family interaction research, and considers the experimental Kingsley Hall therapeutic community in comparison with anti-psychiatry experiments in Germany and Italy. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Psychotherapy - General - Psychology | Mental Health |
Dewey: 616.890 |
LCCN: 96-32541 |
Series: Makers of Modern Pyschotherapy |
Physical Information: 0.52" H x 5.44" W x 8.51" (0.41 lbs) 142 pages |
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Publisher Description: In the 1960s and 1970s, the radical and visionary ideas of R. D. Laing revolutionized thinking about psychiatric practice and the meaning of madness. His work, from The Divided Self to Knots, and his therapeutic community at Kingsley Hall, made him a household name. But after little more than a decade he faded from prominence as quickly as he had attained it. |