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The Divided Self

Paperback • 1976 • English

The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness

By R. D. Laing

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In The Divided Self (1960), Laing contrasted the experience of the "ontologically secure" person with that of a person who "cannot take the realness, aliveness, autonomy and identity of himself and others for granted" and who consequently contrives strategies to avoid "losing his self". Laing explains how we all exist in the world as beings, defined by others who carry a model of us in their heads, just as we carry models of them in our heads. In later writings he often takes this to deeper leve...Show more

Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints
Child, developmental and lifespan psychology
Social, group or collective psychology

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ISBN

9780140207347

Publisher

Penguin Books

Published year

1976

Language

English

Original title

The Divided Self

Format

Paperback

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