In the 1960's and 70's, R.D. Laing became a popular public figure. His initial text, The Divided Self, helped make the experience labeled as schizophrenia understandable and it shared his compassion ...
For a piece fictionalising the controversial psychiatrist RD Laing, author of The Divided Self, Patrick Marmion's new play The Divided Laing feels appropriately schizophrenic. Set for the most part in ...
Conventionally, mental conflict has been regarded as at best undesirable, and at worst, pathological. For Freudians, it was the cause and occasion for repression, and for twentieth-century folk ...