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Sanity, madness, and the family : (Record no. 1749)

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ISBN 0140211578
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Classification number WM 203.
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Personal author Laing, R D
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Title Sanity, madness, and the family :
Subtitle families of schizophrenics
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Publisher Penguin,
Date 1964
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Physical description 282p
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Abstract In the late 1950s the psychiatrist R.D.Laing and psychoanalyst Aaron Esterson spent five years interviewing eleven families of female patients diagnosed as 'schizophrenic'. Sanity, Madness and the Family is the result of their work. Eleven vivid case studies, often dramatic and disturbing, reveal patterns of affection and fear, manipulation and indifference within the family. But it was the conclusions they drew from their research that caused such controversy: they suggest that some forms of mental disorder are only comprehensible within their social and family contexts; their symptoms the manifestations of people struggling to live in untenable situations.<br/><br/>Sanity, Madness and the Family was met with widespread hostility by the psychiatric profession on its first publication, where the prevailing view was to treat psychosis as a medical problem to be solved. Yet it has done a great deal to draw attention to the complex and contested nature of psychosis. Above all, Laing and Esterson thought that if you understood the patient's world their apparent madness would become socially intelligible.
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Subject term Schizophrenia
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Subject term Family
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Added personal author Esterson, A
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    Other/Generic Classification Scheme     Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust Knowledge and Library Service Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust Knowledge and Library Service Shelves 16/06/2006   XX(13688.2) O_NOCOPY_356 27/03/2015 1 27/03/2015 Book
    National Library of Medicine     South London and Maudsley Trust Library South London and Maudsley Trust Library Shelves 16/06/2006   WM 203 LAI 024597 27/03/2015 2 27/03/2015 Book
          St Charles Library Hub (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) St Charles Library Hub (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) Library cupboard 15/01/2024     CNWL00323 15/01/2024   15/01/2024 Book
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