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About the product What is madness? Or rather, what is the most common form of insanity, schizophrenia? Is it possible to treat serious mental disorders with such a gentle psychotherapeutic method as communication with the patient? And where is the fine line between normality and insanity? Scottish psychiatrist and one of the ideologues of the antipsychiatry movement Ronald David Laing (1927 — 1989) believed that schizophrenia is not really a disease, but a way to cope with problems, primarily family problems. Avoiding complexities in the real world, a person can behave like crazy without a psychiatric diagnosis. Laing viewed the behavior of his patients not as symptoms of illness, but as manifestations of personal freedom and personal experience. In The Shattered Self, Laing not only talks about his work with schizophrenics, but reveals their inner reality and tries to make madness understandable, thereby changing the perception of mental illness. …
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