# The Divided Self

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- Book: [The Divided Self](https://www.bookquiver.com/r-d-laing/the-divided-self) ([The Divided Self.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/r-d-laing/the-divided-self.md))
- Authors: [R. D. Laing](https://www.bookquiver.com/r-d-laing)
- Publisher: penguin_books
- ISBN: 978-01-4013-537-4
- Pages: 224
- Published: 1965-08-30
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Dr. Laing's first purpose is to make madness and the process of going mad comprehensible. In this, with case studies of schizophrenic patients, he succeeds brilliantly, but he does more: through a vision...