The Divided Self
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What’s it about?
What if madness isn't a disease but a survival strategy? Laing explores how feeling unreal drives people to create false selves, revealing the hidden logic behind psychosis.
You’ll learn
- Ontological security vs. insecurity
- Three forms of existential anxiety
- How the false self system develops
- Listening to symptoms as meaningful