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The Sound of Our Time
Side 197-198: Selected bibliography
The Dartmouth Man
At some early age, I came up with a motto that pretty well characterizes my life. It states that "I live my life in defiance of dullness." Things have certainly worked out that way. For one example, when I was in the registrar's office in graduate admissions at the University of Colorado, he looked at my transcript from Dartmouth and told me that I'd just wasted four years of my life. The professor of geology who was to be my graduate adviser agreed, and said that I'd need to take math, physics, and chemistry and at the same time bring my gentleman's C+ grade average from Dartmouth (a result of too much guitar playing, too much rockclimbing, and too little studying) up to an honor grade leve...
David Laing, LL. D.
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R.D. Laing
R.D. Laing, author of The Divided Self and Knots, was the best-known and most influential psychiatrist of modern times. In this remarkable biography, the only one to be written by a close relative, Laing's son tells the story of his father's life and examines the foundations of his pioneering and unorthodox work on madness and the family. Adrian Laing is the second of R.D. Laing's six sons and is a lawyer and author. He lives in London.
Music by Numbers
The music industries are fuelled by statistics: sales targets, breakeven points, success ratios, royalty splits, website hits, ticket revenues, listener figures, piracy abuses and big data. Statistics are of consequence. They influence the music that consumers get to hear, they determine the revenues of music makers, and they shape the policies of governments and legislators. Yet many of these statistics are generated by the music industries themselves, and their accuracy can be questioned. This original new book sets out to explore this shadowy terrain. While there are books that offer guidelines about how the music industries work, as well as critiques from academics about the policies of ...
The Divided Self
First published in 1960, this watershed work aimed to make madness comprehensible, and in doing so revolutionized the way we perceive mental illness. Using case studies of patients he had worked with, psychiatrist R. D. Laing argued that psychosis is not a medical condition but an outcome of the �divided self�, or the tension between the two personas within us: one our authentic, private identity, and the other the false, �sane� self that we present to the world.
The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise
In ‘The Politics of Experience’ and the visionary ‘Bird of Paradise’, R.D. Laing shows how the straitjacket of conformity imposed on us all leads to intense feelings of alienation and a tragic waste of human potential. He throws into question the notion of normality, examines schizophrenia and psychotherapy, transcendence and ‘us and them’ thinking, and illustrates his ideas with a remarkable case history of a ten-day psychosis. ‘We are bemused and crazed creatures,’ Laing suggests. This outline of ‘a thoroughly self-conscious and self-critical human account of man’ represents a major attempt to understand our deepest dilemmas and sketch in solutions. ‘Everyone in contemporary psychiatry owes something to R.D. Laing’ Anthony Clare, the Guardian.
Knots
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