The Crucible of Experience : R. D. Laing and the Crisis of Psychotherapy / Daniel Burston.
2000
RC438.6.L34 B86 2000
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Title
The Crucible of Experience : R. D. Laing and the Crisis of Psychotherapy / Daniel Burston.
Author
Burston, Daniel, author.
ISBN
9780674270879
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2000]
Copyright
©2000
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource (192 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.4159/9780674270879 doi
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RC438.6.L34 B86 2000
Dewey Decimal Classification
616.89/14/01
Summary
One of the great rebels of psychiatry, R. D. Laing challenged prevailing models of madness and the nature and limits of psychiatric authority. In this brief and lucid book, Laing's widely praised biographer distills the essence of Laing's vision, which was religious and philosophical as well as psychological.The Crucible of Experience reveals Laing's philosophical debts to existentialism and phenomenology in his theories of madness and sanity, family theory and family therapy. Daniel Burston offers the first detailed account of Laing's practice as a therapist and of his relationships-often contentious-with his friends and sometime disciples. Burston carefully differentiates between Laing and "Laingians," who were often clearer, more confident, and more simplistic than their teacher.While he examines Laing's theories of madness, Burston focuses most provocatively on Laing's views of sanity and normality and on his recognition, toward the end of his life, of the essential place of holiness in human experience. In a powerful last chapter, Burston shows that Laing foresaw the present commercialization of medicine and asked pointed questions about what the meaning of sanity and the future of psychotherapy in such a world could be. In this, as in other matters, Laing's questions of a generation ago remain questions for our time.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
1 An Enigmatic Man
2 R. D. Laing and Existential Phenomenology
3 R. D. Laing and Existential Psychotherapy
4 Families, Phenomenology, and Schizophrenia
5 Normality and the Numinous
6 R. D. Laing and the Crisis of Psychotherapy
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
1 An Enigmatic Man
2 R. D. Laing and Existential Phenomenology
3 R. D. Laing and Existential Psychotherapy
4 Families, Phenomenology, and Schizophrenia
5 Normality and the Numinous
6 R. D. Laing and the Crisis of Psychotherapy
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index