Social Science Marriage & Family
The Politics of the Family
- Publisher
- House of Anansi Press Inc
- Initial publish date
- Sep 1997
- Category
- Marriage & Family, Couples & Family
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780887848896
- Publish Date
- Sep 1997
- List Price
- $14.95
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Description
In his 1968 CBC Massey Lectures R. D. Laing discusses how and why we value society's notions of family over our own.
Using concepts of schizophrenia, R.D. Laing demonstrates that we tend to invalidate the subjective and experiential and accept the proper societal view of what should occur within the family.
A psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, Laing worked at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations. His books include The Self and Others and The Politics of Experience.
About the author
R.D. Laing, psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, worked at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, where he served as principal investigator of the Institute's Schizophrenia and Family Research Unit. From 1964 to 1982 he was chairman of the Philadelphia Association, London, where he developed a new theory to relate psychotic breakdown to family and social networks. His publications include The Self and Others, The Divided Self, Knots, and The Politics of Experience.