The Divided Self

R.D.LAING
The Divided Self

Preface to the Original Edition 9
Preface to the Pelican Edition 11
Acknowledgments 13

Part One
1 . The existential-phenomenological foundations for a
science of persons 17
2 . The existential-phenomenological foundations for
The understanding of psychosis 27
3 . Ontological insecurity 39

Part Two
4 . The embodied and unembodied self 65
5 . The inner self in the schizoid condition 78
6 . The false-self ``system 94
7 . Self-consciousness 106
8 . The case of Peter 120

Part Three
9 . Psychotic developments 137
10 . The self and the false self in a schizophrenic 160
11 . The ghost of the weed garden : a study of a chronic
Schizophrenic 178


References 207
Index 211