By R. D. Laing
ISBN-10: 0140135375
ISBN-13: 9780140135374
Proposing case experiences of schizophrenic sufferers, Laing goals to make insanity and the method of going mad understandable. He additionally deals an existential research of non-public alienation.
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Kraepelin notes here among other things the patient's 'inaccessibility': Although he undoubtedly understood all the questions, he has not given us a single piece of useful information. His talk w a s . . only a series of disconnected sentences having no relation whatever to the general situation (1905, pp. 79-80, italics my own). Now there is no question that this patient is showing the 'signs' of catatonic excitement. The construction we put on this behaviour will, however, depend on the relationship we establish with the patient, and we are indebted to Kraepelin's vivid description which enables the patient to come, it seems, alive to us across fifty years and through his pages as though he were before us.
54 The Divided Self Some of the points discussed above are illustrated in the following two cases: Case 1. Anxiety at feeling alone. 's presenting difficulty was a dread of being in the street (agoraphobia). On closer inspection, it became clear that her anxiety arose when she began to feel on her own in the street or elsewhere. She could be on her own, as long as she did not feel that she was really alone. Briefly, her story was as follows: she was an only and a lonely child. There was no open neglect or hostility in her family.
Otherwise, any and every relationship threatens the individual with loss of identity. One form this takes can be called engulfment. In this the individual dreads relatedness as such, with anyone or anything or, indeed, even with himself, because his uncertainty about the stability of his autonomy lays him open to the dread lest in any relationship he will lose his autonomy and identity. Engulfment is not simply envisaged as something that is liable to happen willy-nilly despite the individual's most active efforts to avoid it.
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