Sanity, Madness, and the Family [antikvár]

Preface The data presented in the following pages is part of an investigation into the families of schizophrenics which the authors began in 195 8. During this time Dr R. D. Laing was a member of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations and the Tavistock Clinic, and since i960 he has been a Fellow of the Foundations' Fund for Research in Psychiatry. Dr A. Ester-son was on the staff of two mental hospitals, referred to as East Hospital and West Hospital, where most of the interviewing was conducted. Others who have intensively participated in the research have been Dr A. Russell Lee, Miss Marion Bosanquet, Psychiatric Social Worker, Mr H. Phillipson, Principal Psychologist, Tavistock Clinic. Dr A. Russell Lee's participation was made possible through a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda (MF—10579). This investigation was further aided by a grant from the Foundations' Fund for Research in Psychiatry. Detailed and helpful discussions of this work have been conducted at a research seminar at the Tavistock Clinic in the last three years, of which Dr Marie Jahoda has been Chairman. The authors would like to thank members of this seminar for their constructive criticisms: Mr A. Ambrose, Dr J. Bowlby, Professor Janis, Mrs Janis, Dr Michell, Mr J. Robertson, Mrs E. Spillius, Dr J. D. Sutherland. We wish to thank particularly Paul Senft for his detailed criticisms of the text and our discussions with him. Through the Foundations' Fund for Research in Psychiatry, Dr Laing visited the United States in 1962, and discussed this research with a number of investigators there, to name only some of those with whom he had valuable exchanges: Gregory Bateson, Ray Birdwhistell, Erving Goffman, Don Jackson,