{"product_id":"the-politics-of-experience-9780394714752","title":"The Politics of Experience","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA brilliantly original book from one of the 20th century's most influential psychiatrists that\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003egoes beyond the usual theories of mental illness and alienation to make a convincing case for the \"madness of morality.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eR.D. Laing is at his most wickedly iconoclastic in this eloquent assault on conventional morality. Compelling, unsettling, consistently absorbing, \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Experience\u003c\/i\u003e is a classic of genuine importance that will \"excite, enthrall, and disturb. No one who reads it will remain unaffected.\" (Rollo May, \u003ci\u003eSaturday Review\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eR.D. LAING was born in Scotland and studied medicine at the University of Glasgow, where he later taught. He served as a psychiatrist and physician for the army and public clinics before turning to private family pratice as a psychoanalyst in the 1960s. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDr. Laing wrote several books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Divided Self, Reason and Violence, The Politics of the Family, and The Voice of Experience\u003c\/i\u003e. He died in 1989.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Pantheon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51735640998162,"sku":"9780394714752","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0cd6c0e2-32cd-495c-b32e-7c5dd2395cb6.jpg?v=1763539814","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-politics-of-experience-9780394714752","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}