9780674953581 - The Wing of Madness: The Life and Work of R.D. Laing von Burston, Daniel (2 Ergebnisse)

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. Signed by Daniel Burston. signed.

Zustand: very good. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1996. Hardcover. Dustjacket.r. 275 pp. English text. Condition : very good. - Daniel Burston chronicles Laing's meteoric rise to fame as one of the first media psychogurus of the century, and his spiraling decline in the late seventies and eighties. Here are the successes: Laing's emergence as a unique voice on the psychiatric scene with his first book, The Divided Self, in 1960; his forthright and articulate challenges to conventional wisdom on the origins, meaning, and treatment of mental disturbances; his pioneering work on the families of schizophrenics, Sanity, Madness and the Family (coauthored with A. Esterson). Here as well are Laing's more dubious moments, personal and professional, including the bizarre experiment with psychotic patients at Kingsley Hall. Burston traces many of Laing's controversial ideas and therapeutic innovations to a difficult childhood and adolescence in Glasgow and troubling experiences as an army doctor; he also offers a measured assessment of these ideas and techniques. Condition : very good copy. ISBN 9780674953581. Keywords : PSYCHOLOGY,