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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Seller Inventory # 020347
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good condition. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Light toning to page ends. Good DJ with some edge wear and creasing. Seller Inventory # 9999-9996320220
Book Description Condition: Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Seller Inventory # GRP68856613
Book Description Condition: Very Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects. Seller Inventory # 42399832-75
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. UK hardback first impression. VG+ in Good+ jacket, unclipped with a couple of small creases to front flap corners. Seller Inventory # ABE-1675426445978
Book Description 8vo. Pp: 178. First edition. Green dust jacket with black and white illustration to rear. Red buckram boards with silver lettering to spine. Ownership stamp to front pastedown. Ownership signature to first free end paper.ISBN: 0713913304 Very good with some spots to top edge and slight lean to page block. Very good+ boards in very good price clipped dust jacket, with faded spine. Seller Inventory # C68461
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition. ***Very good in red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Please note that the bottom corner of the front board is quite badly bumped. Owner's name in black fountain pen ink: 'J. W. Raffety' to top of front free endpaper. Light crease to top corner of page 165. Pages clean. Spine tight. ***In a very good pale green, black, red and white printed dustwrapper, that has not been price-clipped, showing the original publisher's price of £7.50 net. Black and white photographic portrait of R. D. Laing to rear panel of dustwrapper. Please note that the bottom corner of front panel of dustwrapper is creased and bumped. Light crease to bottom corned of rear flap. Red titles to spine of dustwrapper faded. No tears. Rear and front panel of dustwrapper clean and bright. ***224mm x 142mm. 179 pages including bibliography to rear. ***Contents: Part One - 1 Experience and Science; 2 The Objective Look; 3 The Diagnostic Look; 4 The Possibility of Experience; 5 Birth and Before 6 The Prenatal Bond. *** Part Two - 7 Embryologems, Psychologems, Mythologems, 8 Dual Unity; 9 The Tie and the Cut-Off; 10 Entry; 11 Egg, Sphere and Self; 12 Recessions and Regressions; Coda; Bibliography. ***'In this major theoretical book, R. D. Laing considers the place and function of the ordinary human world in the objective scientific scheme of things. He extends and deepens the reflections he produced on the themes in his early books, particularly in The Divided Self, The Politics of Experience and The Facts of Life. ***Here he goes on to consider the effect on us when the objective scientific look is brought to bear at birth, at death, and when we become physically or mentally helpless and at the mercy of others. ***His critique of trends in biology, obstetrics, psychiatry and psychoanalysis is often very funny, however painful, and is tellingly documented. He examines various 'checkpoints' where experience and science seem to come into a head-on collision. ***In the second part of this book Laing turns to experience itself and through depictions (some quite extraordinary) and descriptions tries to exemplify and at the same time to discuss a feasible and valid way of communicating about experience. This part of the book is largely based on Dr Laing's thirty years' experience in psychiatry and psychoanalysis, and almost all of it is controversial and challenging. There will be few who will not share his wonder at the correspondence between patterns in the mind, in myths, and in the morphological transformations of embryology, whatever we make of them. ***In this book Laing is having a lively conversation with his contemporaries, and we hear his voice at its best.' (Quotes from inside front of dustwrapper blurb). ***First impression of the true first edition, in its original dustwrapper. An uncommon title in first edition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Seller Inventory # 6733
Book Description hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good. book. Seller Inventory # D8S0-3-M-0713913304-4