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Ontological Insecurity: A Discussion of R.D. Laing

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Psychotic Experiences - What's the Meaning of Madness?

Lang suggests that psychiatric theory has actually institutionalized this petrification. He talks about, like, when he's talking about that patient, james, who's doing thispetrification, and telling lang, he's like a machine. And we get sort ofthe the sibernetcion of james's encounter withis his wife, an tolang. It absolutely reflects the nature of some of what is still going on in our mental health system. There are treatments now that echo rit and everything you know from liberal discourses on mental health too. But at the same time, we also have to ask, why is it that every single patient constitutes the methodologies of preceding

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