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TITLE: MAD
TO BE NORMAL: Conversations
with R.D. Laing AUTHOR: Mullan, Bob ISBN pb: 1 85343 395 0 PAGES: 400 LIST PRICE pb: £ 15.95 ($ 25.00) PUB DATE: 1996 (Reprint)
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TITLE: MAD
TO BE NORMAL: Conversations
with R.D. Laing AUTHOR: Mullan, Bob ISBN pb: 1 85343 395 0 PAGES: 400 LIST PRICE pb: £ 15.95 ($ 25.00) PUB DATE: 1996 (Reprint)
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| DESCRIPTION: Mad to be Normal presents
Laing's own words, about his work and about his life. It is the most
complete record on Laing, by Laing. Entertaining, maddening, surprising,
impressive, occasionally scurrilous, and evoking a compelling portrait
of the heady and sometimes self-regarding mood of the 1960s and early 1970s,
this book necessitates a reassessment of Laing and his work; work which
is part of a lengthier and on-going process concerned with the routine
care of those disturbed in mind.
"A series of very full interviews by a highly informed interviewer." New York Review of Books
"This is presumably the closest a reader will ever get to Laing, the
nearest to an autobiography. Read this book. It is how I imagine
it must have been to talk to Ronnie Laing. It is that vital and that
enlightening."
Mark Hinchcliffe, Asylum
"Mad to be Normal is a splendid contribution to the growing literature
on the maverick Scottish psychoanalyst. For those unacquainted with
Laing's life and times, this material is invaluable. Those who take
a professional interest in it, also have much to learn."
Psychoanalytic Review
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