R. D. Divided Self Existential Study Sanity & Madness

Using case studies of patients the author had worked with, this title argues that psychosis is not a medical condition but an outcome of the divided self, or the tension between the two personas within us one our authentic, private identity, and the other the false, sane self that we present to the world. | R. D. Laing The Divided Self : An Existential Study in Sanity & Madness