MODERN CLASSICS THE DIVIDED SELF

For the first time in Penguin Modern Classics and on the 50th anniversary of its first publication, Laing's unique study of the human situation

An extremely interesting, absorbing and sometimes moving account of madness and the process of going mad. Dr. Laing's first purpose is to make madness and the process of going mad comprehensible. In this he succeeds brilliantly, but he does more: through a vision of sanity and madness as "degrees of conjunction and disjunction between two persons where the one is sane by common consent" he offers a rich existential analysis of personal alienation.