R. D. Laing

1 book · 1960 · non-fiction, psychology, psychiatry

Bibliography

The Divided Self cover1960

Themes

madnessidentityexistentialismmental healthself and others

Key Concepts

ontological-insecurity4false-self-system3existential-phenomenology2schizoid-and-schizophrenic-experience1clinical-observation1schizoid-split1clinical-vocabulary-limitations1person-versus-organism1vocabulary-of-denigration1existential-phenomenological-interpretation1relational-diagnosis1clinical-objectivity-critique1ontological-security1primary-existential-assurances1anxiety-forms-engulfment-implosion-petrification1literary-illustrations-of-ontological-states1embodied-self1unembodied-self1mind-body-split1psychosis-risk1