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It advances a theory of the embodied and unembodied self, the inner self in schizoid conditions, and the false-self system. Through theoretical discussion, clinical illustration, and a detailed case study, the work examines psychotic developments, self–false self relations in schizophrenia, and the lived experience behind diagnostic categories.","R.D. LAING  \nThe Divided Self  \nAn Existential Study in Sanity and Madness With an Introduction by Anthony David  \nPENGUIN BOOKS  \nContents  \nPreface to the Original Edition  \nPreface to the Pelican Edition  \nPart One  \n1 The existential-phenomenological foundations for  \n\n| a science | of persons\u003Cbr>existential-phenomenological foundations for |\n| --- | --- |\n| 2 The |  |\n\nthe understanding of psychosis  \n3 Ontological insecurity  \nPart Two  \n4 The embodied and unembodied self  \n5 The inner self in the schizoid condition  \n6 The false-self system  \n7 Self-consciousness  \n8 The case of Peter  \nPart Three  \n9 Psychotic developments  \n10 The self and the false self in a schizophrenic  \n11 The ghost of the weed garden: a study of a  \nchronic  \nschizophrenic  \nReferences  \nAcknowledgements  \nPENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS  \nThe Divided Self  \nR.D. Laing, one of the best-known psychiatrists of modern times, was born in Glasgow in 1927. His writings range from books on social theory to verse, as well as numerous articles and reviews in scientific journals and the popular press. His many publications include The Divided Self, Self and Others, Interpersonal Perception, The Politics of Experience, The Bird of Paradise and Madness and Folly. R. D. Laing died in 1989.  \nAnthony David graduated in medicine from Glasgow University in 1980. After training in neurology he switched to psychiatry at the Maudsley & Bethlem Hospitals. He is currently Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London. He has edited several books including The Self in Neuroscience and Psychiatry (2003) with T. Kircher, and Insight and Psychosis (2nd ed., 2004) with X. Amador, and is author of over 350 publications in peer-reviewed medical and scientific journals.  \nTo my mother and father  \nIntroduction  \nThe Divided Self ( DS ) by Ronald David Laing was first published in 1959/1960, subtitled ‘An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness’. It is divided into three parts: the first establishes the theoretical basis for the book with a technical description of what Laing called the  \n‘existential-phenomenological foundations for a science of persons’, followed by an application of this foundation to psychosis. Part Two contains further theoretical development on the idea of the self and ‘false self system’ with illustrations from literature (e.g., Kafka, Kierkegaard) as well as clinical cases, while Part Three sees the application  \nof these ideas to Laing’s own more detailed case descriptions and published case histories. If anyone had said at the time that they thought the foregoing had the makings of a best-seller, a‘must-read’ text for any would-be counterculture guru, an inspirational work for future sociologists, psychologists and dramatists – well, you would have said they were mad.  \nThis is of course not the whole story. DS was the first of several books and the beginning of an intellectual and personal trajectory for the author. Subsequent work was more controversial. In Sanity, Madness and the Family (1964), R.D. Laing took a more openly defiant stance against the psychiatric establishment, and in The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise (1967), he extended his critical thinking to wider aspects of health and society, to personal discovery and  \nspirituality; this was after all the swinging sixties. He covered a wider territory both intellectually and physically, engaging with prophets – real and false – being fêted and at times reviled. None of this, it turned out, was compatible with the continued  \nsober (in both senses) reflection on psychiatric research and the comfortable certainties of regular working and family life.  \nWhen we return to DS after half a century, we do so through the lens of subsequent work and events. We have some distinct advantages,  \nincluding a thorough biography by his son Adrian ( R. D. 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