The split "I". Loring Ronald David

What is madness? Or rather, what is the most common form of madness - schizophrenia? Is it possible to treat serious mental disorders with such a gentle psychotherapeutic method as communication with the patient? And where does the subtle line between normal and madness run?

the Scottish psychiatrist and one of the ideologists of the movement of antipsychiatrics Ronald David Leing (1927 - 1989) believed that schizophrenia is actually not a disease, but a way to cope with problems, in First of all, family. Avoiding difficulties in the real world, a person can behave like a crazy and without a psychiatric diagnosis. Laing considered the behavior of his patients not as the symptoms of the disease, but as a manifestation of personal freedom and personal experience.

In the book “The split“ I ””, Laging does not just talk about his work with schizophrenics, but reveals their inner reality and tries to make madness understandable, thereby changing the perception of mental illness.