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Sanity, Madness and the Family R.D Laing 9781138687745
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $22.43In 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... -
R.D. Laing and the Paths of Anti-Psychiatry by Zbigniew Kotowicz 9780415116114
RRP: $47.72Booksplease Price: $43.98In 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... -
R.D. Laing: His Work and its Relevance for Sociology (RLE Social Theory) Martin Howarth-Williams 9781138997028
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $56.68This 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... -
Portrait of the Psychiatrist as a Young Man: The Early Writing and Work of R.D. Laing, 1927-1960 by Allan Beveridge 9780199583577
Booksplease Price: $58.50RD Laing remains one of the most famous psychiatrists of the last 50 years. In the 1960s he enjoyed enormous popularity and received much publicity for his controversial views challenging the... -
Hidden Histories of British Psychoanalysis: From Freud's Death Bed to Laing's Missing Tooth Brett Kahr 9781800131903
RRP: $39.98Booksplease Price: $39.47In this compellingly written and meticulously researched new book, Professor Brett Kahr draws upon extensive unpublished archival sources and upon his four decades of oral history interviews to paint... -
PsychoPolitics Peter Sedgwick 9780745347226
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $19.66'A powerful and impassioned defence of psychiatry, urging the Left to confront the harsh realities of mental illness' - William Davis, author of The Happiness Industry A new edition of one of the... -
PsychoPolitics Peter Sedgwick 9780745347257
Booksplease Price: $110.49'A powerful and impassioned defence of psychiatry, urging the Left to confront the harsh realities of mental illness' - William Davis, author of The Happiness Industry A new edition of one of the... -
The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise by R. D. Laing
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26In '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... -
Knots by R. D. Laing
Booksplease Price: $12.26Apologies 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... -
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness by R. D. Laing 9780140135374
Booksplease Price: $16.40Presenting 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 Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness by R. D. Laing
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $10.67The 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... -
The Politics of the Family and Other Essays by 9781138483767
RRP: $50.30Booksplease Price: $45.72Originally 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 Psychological Fictions of J.G. Ballard by Samuel T. Francis 9781472513038
Booksplease Price: $52.62J. G. Ballard self-professedly 'devoured' the work of Freud as a teenager, and entertained early thoughts of becoming a psychiatrist; he opened his novel-writing career with a manifesto declaring his... -
Introducing Wittgenstein: A Graphic Guide by John Heaton 9781848310865
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.22This is a superlative graphic guide described as 'warm, witty and wise' by Jonathan Ree to an enigmatic master of twentieth-century philosophy.About the AuthorJohn Heaton is a psychotherapist and was... -
R. D. Laing in the Twenty-First Century: Sanity, Therapy, Love Michael Guy Thompson 9781032916323
RRP: $45.14Booksplease Price: $41.33In 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... -
Phenomenology and the Social Context of Psychiatry: Social Relations, Psychopathology, and Husserl's Philosophy by Magnus Englander 9781350166448
Booksplease Price: $47.50Exploring phenomenological philosophy as it relates to psychiatry and the social world, this book establishes a common language between psychiatrists, anti-psychiatrists, psychologists and social... -
The Legacy of R. D. Laing: An appraisal of his contemporary relevance M. Guy Thompson 9781138850156
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $49.01The 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... -
Critical Psychiatry: The Limits of Madness by D. B. Double 9780230001282
Booksplease Price: $116.82Psychiatry is increasingly dominated by the reductionist claim that mental illness is caused by neurobiological abnormalities. Critical psychiatry disagrees with this and proposes a more ethical... -
Miracles of Healing: Psychotherapy and Religion in Twentieth-Century Scotland by Gavin Miller
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $27.39Although 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... -
Elements of Reparation: Truth, Faith, and Transformation in the Works of Heidegger, Bion, and Beyond Brent Potter 9781782201526
RRP: $50.30Booksplease Price: $45.72Damage and reparation are central themes of human existence. Melanie Klein, among other pivotal discoveries, noted our capacity for destructiveness towards others and ourselves. More importantly, she... -
The Primordial Dance: Diametric and Concentric Spaces in the Unconscious World by Paul Downes 9783034307604
RRP: $84.82Booksplease Price: $76.02This book argues that a silent axis of the unconscious world rests largely undiscovered. It recasts foundational concepts in the psychology of Freud, Jung, Carol Gilligan and R.D. Laing, as well as... -
Developments in Family Therapy: Theories and Applications Since 1948 by Sue Walrond-Skinner
RRP: $41.27Booksplease Price: $38.84Originally published in 1981, this volume presents papers by the leading British theorists and practitioners in family therapy from its beginnings up to the 1980s. It collected together for the first... -
Developments in Family Therapy (Psychology Revivals): Theories and Applications Since 1948 by Sue Walrond-Skinner 9780415740609
RRP: $161.25Booksplease Price: $144.03Originally published in 1981, this volume presents papers by the leading British theorists and practitioners in family therapy from its beginnings up to the 1980s. It collected together for the first... -
Post-Capitalist Subjectivity in Literature and Anti-Psychiatry: Reconceptualizing the Self Beyond Capitalism by Hans A. Skott-Myhre
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $52.81Through the examination of anti-psychiatric theory and literary texts, this timely and thought-provoking volume explores the possibilities of liberating our habitual patterns of perception and... -
The Secret Life Of The Unborn Child: A remarkable and controversial look at life before birth John Kelly 9780751510034
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.95At sixteen weeks the unborn child shies away from light. At twenty weeks there is a response to speech patterns. At twenty-five weeks the baby can kick in time to music. And at six months the unborn... -
The British Anti-Psychiatrists: From Institutional Psychiatry to the Counter-Culture, 1960-1971 by Oisin Wall
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $53.92The British anti-psychiatric group, which formed around R.D. Laing, David Cooper, and Aaron Esterson in the 1960s, burned bright, but briefly, and has left a long legacy. This book follows their... -
Great Psychologists as Parents: Does knowing the theory make you an expert? David Cohen 9781138899919
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $57.78Does it make you a better parent if you have pioneered scientific theories of child development? In a unique study, David Cohen compares what great psychologists have said about raising children and... -
The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future by Andrew Pickering 9780226667904
Booksplease Price: $42.05Cybernetics is often thought of as a grim military or industrial science of control. But as Andrew Pickering reveals in this surprising book, a much more lively and experimental strain of cybernetics... -
The Heart of Therapy: Developing Compassion, Understanding and Boundaries Laura Barnett 9781032428277
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $33.53This thoughtful and heartfelt book develops two main themes: the healing power of a compassionate understanding towards ourselves and others, and the ways boundaries are set within and around various... -
Roundhouse: Joe Berke and the 1967 Congress on the Dialectics of Liberation by Martin Levy 9783838216591
RRP: $34.83Booksplease Price: $30.44The 1967 'Summer of Love' brought all sorts of unusual people and events to London but perhaps nothing so extraordinary as the Congress on the Dialectics of Liberation. The congress, organized by the... -
Political Psychology: A Social Psychological Approach Christopher J. Hewer 9781118929339
RRP: $48.96Booksplease Price: $47.16A research-based guide to political psychology that is filled with critical arguments from noted experts Political Psychology is solidly grounded in empirical research and critical arguments. The... -
Political Psychology: A Social Psychological Approach by Christopher J. Hewer 9781118982396
Booksplease Price: $104.48A research-based guide to political psychology that is filled with critical arguments from noted experts Political Psychology is solidly grounded in empirical research and critical arguments. The... -
Technique and Practice of Listening in Intensive Psychotherapy by Richard D. Chessick 9780876683002
Booksplease Price: $105.10Dr Chessick uses the metaphor of a television set in order to illustrate Freud's notion of the therapist's unconscious as a receptive organ for the transmitting unconscious of the patient. The... -
Misogyny Online: A Short (and Brutish) History by Emma A. Jane 9781473916005
Booksplease Price: $110.19Misogyny Online explores the worldwide phenomenon of gendered cyberhate as a significant discourse which has been overlooked and marginalised. The rapid growth of the internet has led to numerous... -
Archetypal Imagination: Glimpses of the Gods in Life and Art by Noel Cobb 9781584209089
RRP: $29.61Booksplease Price: $22.28This unique book is about freeing psychology's poetic imagination from the dead weight of unconscious assumptions about the soul. Whether we think of the soul scientifically or medically,... -
Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the light of modern art, literature, and thought (revised edition) by Louis A. Sass
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $62.86The similarities between madness and modernism are striking: defiance of convention, nihilism, extreme relativism, distortions of time, strange transformations of self, and much more. In this... -
Essays in Existential Psychoanalysis: On the Primacy of Authenticity M. Guy Thompson 9781032551234
RRP: $43.85Booksplease Price: $40.62In this brilliant and revolutionary collection of 14 major essays that draw from more than 25 years of painstaking research, M. Guy Thompson regales us with a stunning revisioning of conventional... -
Schizophrenia: The Positive Perspective: Explorations at the Outer Reaches of Human Experience by Peter Chadwick
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $52.81This fully revised second edition of Schizophrenia: The Positive Perspective uses biographical sketches and essays to discuss schizophrenia and related conditions, providing advice on methods of... -
Outside of a Dog: A Bibliomemoir by Rick Gekoski 9781780331195
Booksplease Price: $26.70Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. Groucho MarxOutside of a Dog is the captivating account of twenty-five books drawn from the fields of... -
The Planets Within: The Astrological Psychology of Marsilio Ficino by Thomas Moore
RRP: $25.74Booksplease Price: $19.61The Planets Within asks us to return to antiquity with new eyes. It centers on one of the most psychological movements of the prescientific age -- Renaissance Italy, where a group of 'inner...