TY  - GEN
AU  - Laing,R D
TI  - The Politics of experience and the Bird of paradise
SN  - 9780140134865
PY  - 1967/// [1990 reprint]
CY  - Harmondsworth
PB  - Penguin
KW  - Psychiatry
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Psychotherapy
KW  - Schizophrenia
KW  - Psychotic disorders
KW  - Social conformity
KW  - Social exclusion
N2  - In ‘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 of human potential. He throws into question the notion of normality, examines schizophrenia and psychotherapy, transcendence and ‘us and them’ thinking, and illustrates his ideas with a remarkable case history of a ten-day psychosis. ‘We are bemused and crazed creatures,’ Laing suggests. This outline of ‘a thoroughly self-conscious and self-critical human account of man’ represents a major attempt to understand our deepest dilemmas and sketch in solutions
ER  -