The Politics of the Family

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1997

ISBN-13: 9780887848896

<p>In his 1968 CBC Massey Lectures R. D. Laing discusses how and why we value society's notions of family over our own.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>A psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, Laing worked at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations. His books include <em>The Self and Others</em> and <em>The Politics of Experience</em>.</p>