|
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues
|
Buy Now
Sanity, Madness and the Family (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R5,353
Discovery Miles 53 530
|
|
|
Sanity, Madness and the Family (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Classics
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
In the late 1950s the psychiatrist R.D.Laing and psychoanalyst
Aaron Esterson spent five years interviewing eleven families of
female patients diagnosed as 'schizophrenic'. Sanity, Madness and
the Family is the result of their work. Eleven vivid case studies,
often dramatic and disturbing, reveal patterns of affection and
fear, manipulation and indifference within the family. But it was
the conclusions they drew from their research that caused such
controversy: they suggest that some forms of mental disorder are
only comprehensible within their social and family contexts; their
symptoms the manifestations of people struggling to live in
untenable situations. Sanity, Madness and the Family was met with
widespread hostility by the psychiatric profession on its first
publication, where the prevailing view was to treat psychosis as a
medical problem to be solved. Yet it has done a great deal to draw
attention to the complex and contested nature of psychosis. Above
all, Laing and Esterson thought that if you understood the
patient's world their apparent madness would become socially
intelligible. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new
Foreword by Hilary Mantel.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
