R. D. Laing

Frank Arthur Vine, the product of am encounter between his mother, Cassie, and an American G.I., is brought up in Coventry, England, after World War II by her six very different sisters and his charismatic grandmother after they decide that his mother is too unstable.

Discusses our ability to feel emotions and to understand and accept those feelings, and compares subjective, objective, and diagnostic observation.

Using concepts of schizophrenia, R.D. Laing demonstrates that we tend to invalidate the subjective and experiential and accept the proper societal view of what should occur within the family in this 1968 Massey Lecture

The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise is a 1967 book by the Scottish psychiatrist R. D. Laing. The book comprises two parts - the first a collection of seven articles previously published between 1962 and 1965; the second a free-flowing quasi-autobiographical piece of poetry and prose. Source: Wikipedia