
divided self
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This is not a book on conventional psychiatry, but rather a profound intellectual mirror that reflects the fractures of the human self, as never before written about. In this moving work, physician and psychophilosopher Ronald David Laing takes us to the heart of the schizophrenic experience-not just as a clinical illness, but as an existential cry.
With a unique existential philosophical approach, the book unravels the distances between "doctor and patient," "sane and insane," and "therapist and patient," revealing how diagnostic systems can exacerbate the rift rather than heal it.
This book strips psychiatric discourse of its dryness and restores its human dimension, so that the reader almost feels they are reading not about "patients," but about themselves, as they confront their anxiety, fragility, and loneliness.
This book has sparked widespread controversy, inspired generations of thinkers and therapists, and has become a classic reference in understanding madness as a facet of humanity.
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