The divided self : an existential study in sanity and madness / R.D. Laing.

Harmondsworth ; Baltimore : Penguin Books, [1969]

218 pages ; 18 cm.

Also published in series: Studies in existential analysis and phenomenology.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-210).

1. The existential -- phenomenological foundations for a science of persons -- 2. The existential -- phenomenological foundations for the understanding of psychosis -- 3. Ontological insecurity -- 4. The embodied and unembodied self -- 5. The inner self in the schizoid condition -- 6. The false-self system -- 7. Self -- consciousness -- 8. The case of Peter -- 9. Psychotic developments -- 10. The self and the false self in a schizophrenic -- 11. The ghost of the weed garden: a study of a chronic schizophrenic.