Sanity, Madness, and the Family

Sanity, Madness, and the Family
Title Sanity, Madness, and the Family PDF eBook
Author Ronald David Laing
Publisher
Pages 296
Release 1971
Genre Schizophrenia
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With the help of his good friend and her three-legged dog, Leftovers, ten-year-old Keath learns how to handle the class bully and deal with being the only white boy in his class.




Sanity, Madness and the Family

Sanity, Madness and the Family
Title Sanity, Madness and the Family PDF eBook
Author R.D Laing
Publisher Routledge
Pages 205
Release 2016-10-04
Genre Psychology
ISBN 1315473879

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In the late 1950s the psychiatrist R.D.Laing and psychoanalyst Aaron Esterson spent five years interviewing eleven families of female patients diagnosed as 'schizophrenic'. Sanity, Madness and the Family is the result of their work. Eleven vivid case studies, often dramatic and disturbing, reveal patterns of affection and fear, manipulation and indifference within the family. But it was the conclusions they drew from their research that caused such controversy: they suggest that some forms of mental disorder are only comprehensible within their social and family contexts; their symptoms the manifestations of people struggling to live in untenable situations. Sanity, Madness and the Family was met with widespread hostility by the psychiatric profession on its first publication, where the prevailing view was to treat psychosis as a medical problem to be solved. Yet it has done a great deal to draw attention to the complex and contested nature of psychosis. Above all, Laing and Esterson thought that if you understood the patient's world their apparent madness would become socially intelligible. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Hilary Mantel.




The Leaves of Spring

The Leaves of Spring
Title The Leaves of Spring PDF eBook
Author Aaron Esterson
Publisher Penguin Group
Pages 334
Release 1972
Genre Psychology
ISBN

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Sanity, Madness, and the Family

Sanity, Madness, and the Family
Title Sanity, Madness, and the Family PDF eBook
Author R. D. Laing
Publisher
Pages 282
Release 1978
Genre Insanity (Law)
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Sanity, Madness and the Family

Sanity, Madness and the Family
Title Sanity, Madness and the Family PDF eBook
Author Ronald David Laing
Publisher
Pages
Release 1969
Genre Schizophrenia
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Stalking Irish Madness

Stalking Irish Madness
Title Stalking Irish Madness PDF eBook
Author Patrick Tracey
Publisher Bantam
Pages 290
Release 2008-08-26
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0553905597

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In this powerful, sometimes harrowing, deeply felt story, Patrick Tracey journeys to Ireland to track the origin and solve the mystery of his Irish-American family's multigenerational struggle with schizophrenia. For most Irish Americans, a trip to Ireland is often an occasion to revisit their family's roots. But for Patrick Tracey, the lure of his ancestral home is a much more powerful need: part pilgrimage, part investigation to confront the genealogical mystery of schizophrenia–a disease that had claimed a great-great-great-grandmother, a grandmother, an uncle, and, most recently, two sisters. As long as Tracey could remember, schizophrenia ran on his mother's side, seldom spoken of outright but impossible to ignore. Devastated by the emotional toll the disease had already taken on his family, terrified of passing it on to any children he might have, and inspired by the recent discovery of the first genetic link to schizophrenia, Tracey followed his genealogical trail from Boston to Ireland's county Roscommon, home of his oldest-known schizophrenic ancestor. In a renovated camper, Tracey crossed the Emerald Isle to investigate the country that, until the 1960s, had the world's highest rate of institutionalization for mental illness, following clues and separating fact from fiction in the legendary relationship the Irish have had with madness. Tracey's path leads from fairy mounds and ancient caverns still shrouded in superstition to old pubs whose colorful inhabitants are a treasure trove of local lore. He visits the massive and grim asylum where his famine starved ancestors may have lived. And he interviews the Irish research team that first cracked the schizophrenic code to learn how much–and how little–we know about this often misunderstood disease. Filled with history, science, and lore, Stalking Irish Madness is an unforgettable chronicle of one man's attempt to make sense of his family's past and to find hope for the future of schizophrenic patients. From the Hardcover edition.




Henry's Demons

Henry's Demons
Title Henry's Demons PDF eBook
Author Patrick Cockburn
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 258
Release 2012-02-14
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1439154716

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Narrated by both Henry Cockburn and his father Patrick, this is the extraordinary story of the eight years since Henry's descent into schizophrenia- years he has spent almost entirely in hospitals- and his family's struggle to help him recover.