The Politics of the Family and Other Essays

by R.D. Laing

Book Overview

Using concepts of schizophrenia, R.D. Laing demonstrates that we tend to invalidate the subjective and experiential and accept the proper societal view of what should occur within the family. A... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394471024
• ISBN13: 9780394471020
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: Pantheon Books
• Length: 133 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Empirical and positivistic

This book is strange of his writings. It is composed simply of interviews about patients and their families. These interviews were recorded by the tape recorders or the hidden observers. It's all of this book. All conversations or their situations, however, talk something important to us silently. No theoretical comments are added, but only the fact. Let the theoretical considerations trusted to others in other places. By understanding the malicious situations of the patients, it will show us the important method of the observation about our unconscious situations of conflicts.