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Sanity, Madness and the Family: Families of Schizophrenics (2nd Edition)
Sanity Madness and the Family Families of Schizophrenics - 2nd Edition Author:R.D. Laing, A. Esterson This book invites a ...radical change in our view of madness...To prepare this human and readable report, Drs. Laing and Esterson conducted and recorded (on tape) a series of interviews, during a period of five years, with eleven patients who had been authoritatively diagnosed as 'schizophrenic'; the novel aspect of their investiga... more »tion was that parents and relatives of the patients, in all possible combinations, were drawn into these interviews. In this way the authors dramatically exposed the cross-currents of affection, hatred, and indifference within the family, ...Their study throws doubt on the traditional view of schizophrenia as an illness with specific symptoms and its own pathology; it suggests rather that some forms of madness may largely be social creations ...
Includes Prefaces to the first and second editions, an Introduction, a chapter on each of the 11 families, an Appendix, and an Index.« less