The Divided Self

The present book is a study of schizoid and schizophrenic per- sons; its basic purpose is to make madness, and the process of going mad, comprehensible. Readers

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About the book. In "The Divided Self" (1960 R.D. Laing explores the profound divide between individuals who feel ontologically

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The Divided Self gates of action are not in the command of the self but are being lived and operated by a false self. The unrealness of perceptions and the

The Divided Self: an Existential Study in Sanity and Madness is a psychological account on madness. The book is divided into three parts. The title of the

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Ratna (1994) considered The. Divided Self to make three contributions to understanding schizophrenia. Firstly, that schizophrenese, the so-called language of

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Schizophrenia is deemed not to be a diagnosis but a disposition. What was the social context in which The. Divided Self was written? The clinical material is

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23 Apr 2026 the divided self. Across his characters, this sensibility takes the form of recurring configurations of psychic rupture that resonate with

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In The Divided Self (1959 Laing proposed taking an 'existential-phenomenological' approach to mental illness, arguing that people diagnosed with schizophrenia