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Knots by R. D. Laing
Booksplease Price: £9.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394717760Author R.D. LaingFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Random House USA... -
Self and Others: Selected Works of R D Laing Vol 2 by R D Laing
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £32.04Originally published in 1961 this book is divided into two parts. In the first Laing critiques the Kleinian view of unconsciou phantasy, as developed by Susan Sutherland Isaacs. He emphasizes the... -
Reason and Violence: Selected Works R D Laing Vol 3 by R. D. Laing
Booksplease Price: £82.02First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780415198202Author R. D. LaingFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint RoutledgePublisher... -
Interpersonal Perception: Selected Works of R D Laing Vol 6 R. D. Laing 9780415198233
Booksplease Price: £68.92First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.About the AuthorR. D. Laing, H. Phillipson, A. R. LeeBook InformationISBN 9780415198233Author R. D... -
The Politics of the Family by R D Laing 9780887845468
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887845468Author R D LaingFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint House of Anansi Press Ltd... -
R. D. Laing in the Twenty-First Century: Sanity, Therapy, Love Michael Guy Thompson 9781032916323
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £32.04In this remarkable review of the seminal contribution of the Scottish psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, R. D. Laing, the three authors, each intimately acquainted with the subject matter, explore... -
The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise by R. D. Laing
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95In 'The Politics of Experience' and the visionary 'Bird of Paradise', R.D. Laing shows how the straitjacket of conformity imposed on us all leads to intense feelings of alienation and a tragic waste... -
Existential Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Introduction M. Guy Thompson 9781032977867
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.69A fascinating introductory volume, Existential Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Introduction integrates existential philosophy with psychoanalysis, drawing on key theorists from both areas and expertly... -
Radical Adventure: An Inquiry into Psychedelic Psychotherapy Andrew Feldmár 9781800133051
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.64At age twenty-seven, Andrew Feldmar accepted a tentative offer from his supervisor, Zenon Pylyshyn, a participant in the first experiments with LSD-25, to experience an LSD trip. Following that... -
Miracles of Healing: Psychotherapy and Religion in Twentieth-Century Scotland by Gavin Miller
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.23Although a tide of secularization swept over the post-war United Kingdom, Christianity in Scotland found one way to survive by drawing on alliances that it had built earlier in the century with... -
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness by R. D. Laing
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.27The Divided Self, R.D. Laing's groundbreaking exploration of the nature of madness, illuminated the nature of mental illness and made the mysteries of the mind comprehensible to a wide audience... -
Mad to be Normal: Conversations with R. D. Laing by Robert Mullan 9781911383079
Booksplease Price: £29.69Re-released with a new introduction, and to coincide with a film of the same title (directed by the author), Mad To Be Normal is the memoir R. D. Laing never lived to write. In the last two years of... -
Credo: R. D. Laing and Radical Psychotherapy by Andrew Feldmár 9781800132443
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.49Tamas Vekerdy, one of the most well-known Hungarian psychologists, called Credo an 'essential insight not just into Feldmar's life but into the world and the era that we currently live in.' ... -
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness by R. D. Laing 9780140135374
Booksplease Price: £12.76Presenting case studies of schizophrenic patients, Laing aims to make madness and the process of going mad comprehensible. He also offers an existential analysis of personal alienation.About the... -
The Legacy of R. D. Laing: An appraisal of his contemporary relevance M. Guy Thompson 9781138850156
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99The name R. D. Laing continues to be widely recognized by those in the psychotherapy community in the United States and Europe. Laing's books are a testament to his breadth of interests, including... -
The Mind Has Mountains: Reflections on Society and Psychiatry by Paul R. McHugh
Booksplease Price: £35.96From strenuous opposition to physician-assisted suicide to a conviction that sex-correction surgery for newborns is cruel and misguided, Dr. Paul R. McHugh's opinions are strong and often... -
The Politics of the Family and Other Essays by 9781138483767
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £35.44Originally published in 1969, based on the talks R. D. Laing gave in 1967 and 68, this book was intended by the author to evoke questions rather than provide answers. Using concepts of schizophrenia,... -
The Dialectics of Liberation by Mr David Cooper
Booksplease Price: £18.50The now legendary Dialectics of Liberation congress, held in London in 1967, was a unique expression of the politics of dissent. Existential psychiatrists, Marxist intellectuals, anarchists, and ... -
Runaway: Gregory Bateson, the Double Bind, and the Rise of Ecological Consciousness by Anthony Chaney 9781469668673
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.96The anthropologist Gregory Bateson has been called a lost giant of twentieth-century thought. In the years following World War II, Bateson was among the group of mathematicians, engineers, and social... -
R.D. Laing and the Paths of Anti-Psychiatry by Zbigniew Kotowicz 9780415116114
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £34.09In the 1960s and 1970s, the radical and visionary ideas of R. D. Laing revolutionized thinking about psychiatric practice and the meaning of madness. His work, from The Divided Self to Knots, and his... -
True and False Experience: Human Element in Psychotherapy Peter Lomas 9781560007333
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94Is psychotherapy first and foremost a technique that can be described, learned, and practices, or is it a relationship in which techniques play a part but ordinary human qualities are the crucial... -
Writing the Mind: Representing Consciousness from Proust to the Present Simon Kemp 9781138717053
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99"My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop. I exist because I think... and I can't stop myself from thinking." - Jean-Paul Sartre, NauseaWriting the Mind: Representing Consciousness from Proust to... -
R.D. Laing: His Work and its Relevance for Sociology (RLE Social Theory) Martin Howarth-Williams 9781138997028
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94This study, by a sociologist, provides the most rigorous and comprehensive review to appear so far of R. D. Laing's work and theoretical development. Martin Howarth-Williams considers that Laing's... -
Odetta in Babylon and the Canada Express by Gregorio Kohon 9781913640514
RRP: £9.00Booksplease Price: £7.06Kohon and Toni Griffiths' stunning translation has the power to transport you to the 1960s, to Buenos Aires, to those first overpowering experiences of sexual love. Odetta in Babylon and the ... -
Jeff Nuttall: Anything But Dull by E. Karthikeya 9781680536744
Booksplease Price: £41.37Jeff Nuttall: Anything But Dull is the first full-length biography of the poet, performance artist, provocateur, and polymath Jeff Nuttall, who famously wrote "I paint poems, sing sculptures,... -
Madness Is Civilization: When the Diagnosis Was Social, 1948-1980 by Michael E. Staub 9780226771472
Booksplease Price: £91.57In the 1960s and '70s, the popular diagnosis for America's problems was that society was becoming a madhouse. In this intellectual and cultural history, Michael E. Staub examines a time when many... -
The World They Made Together: Black and White Values in Eighteenth-Century Virginia by Mechal Sobel 9780691006086
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.55In the recent past, enormous creative energy has gone into the study of American slavery, with major explorations of the extent to which African culture affected the culture of black Americans and... -
Supercharged Taoist: An Amazing True Story to Inspire You on Your Own Adventure, by the Barefoot by Stephen Russell
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.33In the pages of this riveting book, The Barefoot Doctor charts his 25 years of training with some of the most inspiring and innovative teachers and gurus of their generation. You'll meet a man who... -
How Non-being Haunts Being: On Possibilities, Morality, and Death Acceptance by Corey Anton 9781683932840
Booksplease Price: £61.63How Non-being Haunts Being reveals how the human world is not reducible to "what is." Human life is an open expanse of "what was" and "what will be," "what might be" and "what should be." It is a... -
Sincerity and Authenticity by Lionel Trilling
RRP: £25.95Booksplease Price: £19.76"Now and then," writes Lionel Trilling, "it is possible to observe the moral life in process of revising itself." In this new book he is concerned with such a mutation: the process by which the... -
Selected Poems of Calvin C. Hernton by Calvin C. Hernton 9780819500366
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £18.08The definitive guide to a major African American poet/>/>This volume promises to be the definitive guide to Calvin C. Hernton's unparalleled poetic career, re-introducing readers to a major voice in... -
Paul Nizan: Committed Literature in a Conspiratorial World by W. D. Redfern 9780691619989
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £33.80Sartre's friend and sometime rival, Paul Nizan was a prototype of the angry young man. Ideologically a Marxist, politically a Communist, professionally a writer, endowed--Sartre conceded--with a... -
The Man Who Closed the Asylums: Franco Basaglia and the Revolution in Mental Health Care by John Foot 9781784784164
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.24In 1961, when Franco Basaglia arrived outside the grim walls of the Gorizia asylum, on the Italian border with Yugoslavia, it was a place of horror, a Bedlam for the mentally sick and excluded,... -
Site Reading: Fiction, Art, Social Form by David J. Alworth 9780691183343
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.55Site Reading offers a new method of literary and cultural interpretation and a new theory of narrative setting by examining five sites-supermarkets, dumps, roads, ruins, and asylums-that have been... -
Site Reading: Fiction, Art, Social Form by David J. Alworth 9780691164496
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £38.84Site Reading offers a new method of literary and cultural interpretation and a new theory of narrative setting by examining five sites--supermarkets, dumps, roads, ruins, and asylums--that have been... -
The Death of Desire: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness by Michael Guy Thompson
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £44.79A stunning exploration of the relation between desire and psychopathology, The Death of Desire is a unique synthesis of the work of Laing, Freud, Nietzsche, and Heidegger that renders their often... -
From Asylum to Community: Mental Health Policy in Modern America by Gerald N. Grob
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £52.15The distinguished historian of medicine Gerald Grob analyzes the post-World War II policy shift that moved many severely mentally ill patients from large state hospitals to nursing homes, families,... -
Holy Living by Rowan Williams
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Rowan Williams writes accessibly and for the general reader on belief, Christianity and the place of religion today. Apart from being a scholar and theologian, Rowan Williams has also demonstrated... -
Beyond the Unconscious: Essays of Henri F. Ellenberger in the History of Psychiatry by Mark S. Micale 9780691603995
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £72.60Henri F. Ellenberger, the Swiss medical historian, is best remembered today as the author of The Discovery of the Unconscious (1970), a brilliant, encyclopedic study of psychiatric theory and therapy... -
The Mirror Steamed Over: Love and Pop in London, 1962 by Anthony Byrt
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £27.83In the early sixties at the Royal College of Art in London, three extraordinary personalities collided to reshape contemporary art and literature. Barrie Bates (who would become Billy Apple in...