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Sanity, Madness and the Family

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

Sanity, Madness and the Family

By R. D. Laing, Aaron Esterson

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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 me...Show more

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9781138687745

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published year

2016

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Sanity, Madness and the Family

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