In 'The Politics of Experience' and the visionary 'Bird of Paradise', R.D. Laing shows how the straitjacket of conformity imposed on us all leads to intense feelings of alienation and a tragic waste of human potential. He throws into question the notion of normality, examines schizophrenia and psychotherapy, transcendence and 'us and them' thinking, and illustrates his ideas with a remarkable case history of a ten-day psychosis. 'We are bemused and crazed creatures,' Laing suggests. This outline of 'a thoroughly self-conscious and self-critical human account of man' represents a major attempt to understand our deepest dilemmas and sketch in solutions.
'Everyone in contemporary psychiatry owes something to R.D. Laing' Anthony Clare, the Guardian.
- ISBN10 0140025723
- ISBN13 9780140025729
- Publish Date 29 March 1973
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 August 1999
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 160
- Language English