The Politics of Experience

Laing, R.D.

ISBN 10: 039471475X / ISBN 13: 9780394714752

Published by Pantheon, 1983

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Politics of Experience
• Publisher: Pantheon
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 039471475X
• ISBN 13: 9780394714752
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

A brilliantly original book from one of the 20th century's most influential psychiatrists that goes beyond the usual theories of mental illness and alienation to make a convincing case for the "madness of morality."

R.D. Laing is at his most wickedly iconoclastic in this eloquent assault on conventional morality. Compelling, unsettling, consistently absorbing, The Politics of Experience is a classic of genuine importance that will "excite, enthrall, and disturb. No one who reads it will remain unaffected." (Rollo May, Saturday Review)

About the Author

R.D. LAING was born in Scotland and studied medicine at the University of Glasgow, where he later taught. He served as a psychiatrist and physician for the army and public clinics before turning to private family pratice as a psychoanalyst in the 1960s.

Dr. Laing wrote several books, including The Divided Self, Reason and Violence, The Politics of the Family, and The Voice of Experience. He died in 1989.