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Jezik: Engleski
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R. D. Laing
The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise

A brilliantly original book from one of the 20th century`s most influential psychiatrists that goes beyond the usual theories of mental illness and alienation to make a convincing case for the `madness of morality.`

R.D. Laing is at his most wickedly iconoclastic in this eloquent assault on conventional morality. Compelling, unsettling, consistently absorbing, The Politics of Experience is a classic of genuine importance that will `excite, enthrall, and disturb. No one who reads it will remain unaffected.` (Rollo May, Saturday Review )
Laing examines the nature of human experience from a phenomenological point of view, as well as the possibilities for psychotherapy in an existentially distorted world. He challenges the idea of normality in modern society, and argues that it is not merely people who are mad, but the world as well.[4][5] He presents psychosis as `a psychedelic voyage of discovery in which the boundaries of perception were widened, and consciousness expanded`.[2]

While accepting in principle that `There is no need to idealize someone just because he is labelled `out of formation"[6] (or mad), Laing tended to confirm a view of the mad as explorers of the inner world.[7]