Marcia C. reviewed The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness on + 671 more book reviews
Laing's two central ideas are these:
1)Sanity and madness are a matter of "conjunction and disjunction between two persons where the one is sane by common consent." - and -
2)A psychiatrist must acknowledge the essential humanity of the person he/she is "treating" and encounter that humanity honestly and compassionately. Treating psychiatric patients as an "it" is wrong, inhumane and ineffective.
The rest is examples and commentary.
1)Sanity and madness are a matter of "conjunction and disjunction between two persons where the one is sane by common consent." - and -
2)A psychiatrist must acknowledge the essential humanity of the person he/she is "treating" and encounter that humanity honestly and compassionately. Treating psychiatric patients as an "it" is wrong, inhumane and ineffective.
The rest is examples and commentary.
