Author photo. Ronald David Laing (1927-1989) Photo by Robert E. Haraldsen, 1983

Ronald David Laing (1927-1989) Photo by Robert E. Haraldsen, 1983

R. D. Laing (1927–1989)

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

Includes the names: Laing Rd, R. Laing, LAING R D, R. D. Laing, Ronald Laing, Ronald D. Laing, Ronald D. Laing, Ronald David Laing, R.D. and Others Laing

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The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness 698 copies, 6 reviews
The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise 597 copies, 2 reviews
Knots 431 copies, 3 reviews
Self and Others 250 copies
Sanity, Madness and the Family: Families of Schizophrenics 217 copies
The Politics of the Family 137 copies, 2 reviews
The Facts of Life 88 copies
Do You Love Me? An Entertainment in Conversation and Verse 71 copies, 1 review
Reason and Violence: A Decade of Sartre's Philosophy 56 copies
The Voice of Experience: Experience, Science and Psychiatry 52 copies, 1 review
Conversations with Children 42 copies
Wisdom, Madness and Folly: The Making of a Psychiatrist 1927-1957 30 copies
Interpersonal Perception: A Theory and a Method of Research 27 copies
Sonnets 7 copies

Eros, Love & Lies 2 copies

R. D. LAING BOOKS (3) : Knots, Politics of Experience, Self and Others… 2 copies

Intervista sul folle e il saggio 1 copy

Going Crazy : Anti-Psychiatry, Communal Therapy, Lay Therapy,… 1 copy

La morte della famiglia 1 copy

Gubancok 1 copy

Over waanzin en wijsheid interview 1 copy

Podzielone "ja" : egzystencjalistyczne studium zdrowia i choroby… 1 copy

love - Dialogue And Poetry Play Japanese Language Book 1 copy

Do you really love me 1 copy

Los locos y los cuerdos 1 copy

Sel Wks Rd Laing:Sanity Mad V4 (Selected Works of R.D. Laing, 4) 1 copy

Asylum 1 copy

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The Dialectics of Liberation (Contributor) 44 copies, 1 review

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Laing, Ronald David

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Tavistock Clinic

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