Sanity, Madness and the Family
Laing, R.D.; Esterson, A. Publisher: Pelican
Year Published: 1970 First Published: 1964
Pages: 282pp
Resource Type: Book
Laing and Esterson throw doubt on the view that schizophrenia is an illness with specific symptoms and its own pathology; they suggest rather than madness may largely be a social creation and its symptoms no more than the tortured ruses of a person struggled to live in an unlivable situation.
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Table of Contents
Preface
Preface to Second Edition
Introduction
FAMILIES
1. The Abbotts
2. The Blairs
3.The Churches
4. The Danzigs
5. The Edens
6. The Fields
7. The Golds
8. The Heads
9. The Irwins
10. The Kings
11. The Lawsons
Appendix
Index
Topics
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