142 Pages
by
Routledge
142 Pages
by
Routledge
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In the 1960s and 1970s, the radical and visionary ideas of R. D. Laing revolutionized thinking about psychiatric practice and the meaning of madness. His work, from The Divided Self to Knots , and his therapeutic community at Kingsley Hall, made him a household name. But after little more than a decade he faded from prominence as quickly as he had attained it. R.D.Laing and the Paths of... Read more
1. Introduction 2. The World of a Psychotic 3. Knots 4. The Dialectics of Liberation 5. Psychiatry and Freedom 6. Response and Legacy Chronology Bibliography.
Biography
Zbigniew Kotowicz trained as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist with The Philadelphia Association and has worked as a community therapist and in private practice. He is now a freelance writer.
'Anyone with an interest in the history of mental health should read it, and health professionals certainly should.' - Nursing Times
