| The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness by R. D. Laing 1,370 copies, 14 reviews | 1 |
| Self and Others by R. D. Laing 447 copies, 2 reviews | 2 |
| Reason and Violence: A Decade of Sartre's Philosophy by R. D. Laing 115 copies | 3 |
| Sanity, Madness and the Family: Families of Schizophrenics by R. D. Laing 394 copies, 2 reviews | 4 |
| The Politics of the Family by R. D. Laing 280 copies, 3 reviews | 5 |
| Interpersonal Perception: A Theory and a Method of Research by R. D. Laing 38 copies | 6 |
| Knots by R. D. Laing 716 copies, 6 reviews | 7 |
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- This set reprints seven of Laing's major works, originally published between 1960 and 1971 and out of print for many years. Laing was an existential psychiatrist who offered a radical critique of abnormal behaviour and social and medical models for its treatment. He was critical of the extent to which psychoanalytic concepts may conceal or distort human experience and of the tendency to label the patient "sick" as opposed to looking at "sickness" in the patient's family or in society. It was Laing who argued that schizophrenia is not an illness but a label for another kind of problematic experience and behaviour. Laing's ideas have been particularly popular among those who object to the hypocrisy of society and its treatment of those considered to be abnormal. Available also as individual volumes (English, Unclassified)