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The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
Author(s) -
Ronald David Laing
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1966.tb19657.x
Subject(s) - sanity , existentialism , citation , psychology , psychoanalysis , computer science , psychiatry , library science , philosophy , epistemology
Presenting case studies of schizophrenic patients, Laing aims to make madness and the process of going mad comprehensible. He also offers an existential analysis of personal alienation.