R. D. Laing
Works

In The Divided Self (1960), Laing contrasts the experience of the " ontologically secure " person with that of a person who "cannot take the realness, aliveness, autonomy and identity of himself and others for granted" and who consequently contrives strategies to avoid "losing his self". This concept is used to develop a psychodynamic model of the mind to explain psychosis and schizophrenia.: 137 Laing's theories resemble later ideas about self-disorder as a core characteristic of schizophrenia.
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