The Politics of the Family and Other Essays - and Other Essays (Hardcover, New edition)

More tripping with R. D. Laing, the New Left psychoanalyst out of Tavistock Institute and the ongoing Marxist historical sociology-Freudian psychology synthesis. His ideas are now fairly well known - the internalized family (family as fantasy structure) generates brutal psychic pressures on the unknowing individual; the phenomenon of the false-self system, which uncouples the self from the body; the causal relationship between societal madness and personal schizophrenia; the possibility of freedom and health through a "voyage" into insanity (a route Laing himself has gone). Laing's thinking has had an enormous impact on current progressive psychiatric thinking and, more recently, on the radical young. However, this new book, a collection of papers given in 1967-68 (including the prestigious CBC Massey Lectures), adds little to Laing's theory system - he's said most of it before, though hardly better, in his major works, such as The Divided Self, The Politics of Experience, and Sanity, Madness, and the Family. This is simply a forget-me-knot. (Kirkus Reviews)

Originally published in 1969, based on the talks R. D. Laing gave in 1967 and 68, this book was intended by the author to evoke questions rather than provide answers. Using concepts of schizophrenia, R.D. Laing demonstrates that we tend to invalidate the subjective and experiential and accept the proper societal view of what should occur within the family.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Selected Works of R D Laing
Release date:	September 1998
First published:	1969
Authors:	R.D. Laing
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	144
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-19822-6
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Psychiatry Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Family & relationships > General
LSN:	0-415-19822-4
Barcode:	9780415198226

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