Beyond Sanity and Madness
Author : Dennis Genpo Merzel
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,74 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
Author : Dennis Genpo Merzel
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,74 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
Author : R.D Laing
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 42,99 MB
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1315473887
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.
Author : Joel Nederhood
Publisher :
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 33,71 MB
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Author : David Brazier
Publisher : Constable
Page : pages
File Size : 44,58 MB
Release : 1997-09-25
Category :
ISBN : 9780099476290
Author : Rosabelle Illes
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 46,29 MB
Release : 2005
Category :
ISBN : 9789990492835
Author : Ronald David Laing
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,70 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Medical
ISBN :
Dr. Laing's first purpose is to make madness and the process of going mad comprehensible. In this, with case studies of schizophrenic patients, he succeeds brilliantly, but he does more: through a vision of sanity and madness as 'degrees of conjunction and disjunction between two persons where the one is sane by common consent' he offers a rich existential analysis of personal alienation. The outsider, estranged from himself and society, cannot experience either himself or others as 'real'. He invents a false self and with it he confronts both the outside world and his own despair. The disintegration of his real self keeps pace with the growing unreality of his false self until, in the extremes of schizophrenic breakdown, the whole personality disintegrates.
Author : Walter R. Rhodes
Publisher :
Page : 923 pages
File Size : 25,97 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Psychology, Pathological
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Author : Joseph H. Berke
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 31,91 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781853028892
A major question facing therapists today is how to treat psychosis effectively while maintaining patients' dignity, self-respect and their psychological and social functioning. This book provides important and engaging accounts of the special personal and interpersonal care offered by the Arbours Crisis Centre and kindred facilities.
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Page : pages
File Size : 29,51 MB
Release : 2021
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ISBN : 9783948212353
Author : Mark Teppo
Publisher : 51325 Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,18 MB
Release : 2021-03-31
Category :
ISBN : 9781630231088
The Night Office never sleeps. For more than a hundred and fifty years, the Night Office has worked in the shadows, keeping all manners of tentacled beasties, gibbering madnesses, and slavering six-eyed goats from devouring you, your neighbor, and your neighbor's dog. And now, the Night Office needs you. This Advanced Psychological Strategies assessment is meant for field operatives who have just returned from a mission. It will validate your mental integrity, verifying that you have not been breached by space jellies or other malignant entities. Successful completion of an APS assessment will demonstrate a field operative's readiness to continue the perpetual battle against the Great Old Ones. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN: - How to construct a therapeutic personality which can verify your mental integrity. - How to navigate the Dark Labyrinth. - How to acknowledge lingering psychic trauma that has prevented you from making friends. - How to convincingly lie to yourself.