Self and Others

Self and Others is a psychological study by R. D. Laing, first published in 1961. It was re-issued in a second edition (1969), which (in Laing's words) was “extensively revised, without being changed in any fundamental way”.[1]

The book formed part of a series of writings by Laing in the 1960s on the relationship of madness to the self within a social context or nexus,[2] writings which created something of a cult of Laing at the time.[3]

  1. ^ Preface to the Second Edition, R. D. Laing, Self and Others (1969) p. 7
  2. ^ R. Gregory ed, The Oxford Companion to the Mind (1987) p. 417-8
  3. ^ I. Ousby ed., The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English (1995) p. 527