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Summary
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 Wisdom,
Madness & Folly: The Making of A
Psychiatrist was published in 1985. The first
chapter, entitled "Psychiatry Today", is a pretty
lucid and balanced appraisal of the role
psychiatric power in contemporary life. While Laing
explicitly repudiated the "anti-psychiatry" label
other foisted on him here, he continued to lament
the de-humanizing theory and practice of
mainstream, institutional psychiatry, and the lack
of viable alternatives to it. The chapters that
follow are autobiographical in nature, and depict
the home, school, university and professional
environments that shaped the 27 year old author of
The Divided Self, from the kind of music
he presumably heard in the womb - Victorian
ballads, Italian opera - to the rigors of
psychiatry in the Cold War era, when talking with
schizophrenic patients was expressly frowned upon.
A vivid and unforgettable accompaniment to The
Divided Self.
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Contents
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Introduction
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2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
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Psychiatry
Today
Family and School
University
The Army
The Mental Hospital
The Department of Psychiatry
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Postscript
Notes
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