Doris Lessing and R.D. Laing : madness and the matter of the body

With the publication of The Divided Self in 1960, R. D. Laing initiated the British ‘anti-psychiatry’ movement which was to challenge the hegemony of conventional medical and psychoanalytical models of madness during that decade and beyond. Anti-psychiatric thinking coincided with the beginning of t...

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Main Author: Myler, Kerry Sara
Other Authors: Hanson, Sheila
Published: University of Southampton 2010
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.538966