Knots

A series of dialogue-scenarios, which can be read as poems or plays, describing the knots and impasses in various kinds of human relationships.

Author: R. D. Laing
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 04/12/1972
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.11lbs
Size: 6.78h x 4.28w x 0.30d
ISBN13: 9780394717760
ISBN10: 0394717767
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Psychology | Movements | Behaviorism
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Family

About the Author
R. D. Laing was a Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness - in particular, the experience of psychosis. Laing's views on the causes and treatment of serious mental dysfunction, greatly influenced by existential philosophy, ran counter to the psychiatric orthodoxy of the day by taking the expressed feelings of the individual patient or client as valid descriptions of lived experience rather than simply as symptoms of some separate or underlying disorder. Laing studied medicine at the University of Glasgow. He died in 1989,