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Ontological Insecurity: A Discussion of R.D. Laing

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Is There a Low Threshold of Security in Self?

Lang is very good at describing a clinical encounter and how it can prestructure the way that sanity and madness are going to be expressed or classified. But he doesn't do very well of saying, ok, now, what's the process by which that consent is made? He talks about low threshold and thresholds of security in self. And so if you're taking as the basis this, this a relationship between thi, you know, the person who people, by common consent, consider to be sane, and then the other person has this low threshold of security, i suppose, and is categorized as insane. Where does this threshold come from? Because if you assume its biological, i mean

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