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Book Review of The Divided Self : An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness

The Divided Self : An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
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Laing's two central ideas are these:
1)Sanity and madness are a matter of "conjunction and disjunction between two persons where the one is sane by common consent." - and -
2)A psychiatrist must acknowledge the essential humanity of the person he/she is "treating" and encounter that humanity honestly and compassionately. Treating psychiatric patients as an "it" is wrong, inhumane and ineffective.
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