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The Politics of Experience

By R.D. Laing

By R.D. Laing

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Category: Psychology

Paperback $11.00

Aug 12, 1983 | ISBN 9780394714752

The Politics of Experience by R.D. Laing
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Aug 12, 1983 | ISBN 9780394714752

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About The Politics of Experience

R.D. Laing is at his most wickedly iconoclastic in this eloquent assault on conventional morality. Unorthodox to some, brilliantly original to others, The Politics of Experience goes beyond the usual theories of mental illness and alienation, and makes a convincing case for the “madness of 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)

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About R.D. Laing

R.D. Laing was born in Scotland and studied medicine at the University of Glasgow, where he later taught. He served as a psychiatrist and physician for the army and public clinics before turning to private family pratice as a psychoanalyst… More about R.D. Laing

Product Details

Category: Psychology

Paperback | $11.00
Published by Pantheon
Aug 12, 1983 | 192 Pages | 4-3/16 x 7 | ISBN 9780394714752

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Praise

“Stunning . . . I am overpowered by the challenges he dares to make to what has become a rather conventional profession. I can only hope that he will be heard, and heard respectfully.”
—Robert Coles, The New Republic

Table Of Contents

THE POLITICS OF EXPERIENCE • 15

1 Persons and Experience • 17
2 The Psychotherapeutic Experience • 46
3 The Mystifications of Experience • 57
4 Us and Them • 77
5 The Schizophrenic Experience • 100
6 Transcendental Experience • 131
7 A Ten-Day Passage • 171

THE BIRD OF PARADISE • 171

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