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“It really changed how I thought, because Laing’s project is to make the un-understandable understandable, to show how states of madness can arise from thoughts, feelings and processes that we can all identify with in some way. That’s not to trivialise states of madness, but to pull them back within the fold and say that this is a part of human experience and understandable. It’s very much influenced by the existential philosophy of the time, thinking about how the self changes in relation to the world.” Read more...
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Ben Alderson-Day, Psychologist
“The question that he’s asking in the book is about how we categorise the mad and the sane.” Read more...
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