Knots
Laing, R. D.
ISBN 10: 0394717767 ISBN 13: 9780394717760
Published by Random House Inc, 1972
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Synopsis:
A series of dialogue-scenarios, which can be read as poems or plays, describing the "knots" and impasses in various kinds of human relationships.
About the Author: R. D. Laing was a Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness – in particular, the experience of psychosis. Laing's views on the causes and treatment of serious mental dysfunction, greatly influenced by existential philosophy, ran counter to the psychiatric orthodoxy of the day by taking the expressed feelings of the individual patient or client as valid descriptions of lived experience rather than simply as symptoms of some separate or underlying disorder. Laing studied medicine at the University of Glasgow. He died in 1989,
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Bibliographic Details
Title: Knots
Publisher: Random House Inc
Publication Date: 1972
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Brand New