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The Politics of the Family

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  • Publisher:
    House of Anansi Press, 1997
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Laing, R.D.
    Date:
    Created
    1997
    Summary:

    In his 1968 CBC Massey Lectures R. D. Laing discusses how and why we value society's notions of family over our own. Using concepts of schizophrenia, R.D. Laing demonstrates that we tend to invalidate the subjective and experiential and accept the proper societal view of what should occur within the family. A psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, Laing worked at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations. His books include The Self and Others and The Politics of Experience.

    Genre:
    Discursive works, Social science
    Subject(s): Families | Mentally ill--Family relationships
    Original Publisher: [S.l.], House of Anansi Press Inc
    Language(s): English