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Book reviews doing, it will be termed praxis. What SANITY, MADNESS, AND THE FAMILY - goes on in a group may not be intended Families of Schizophrenics (Second by anyone. No one may even realize Edition). By R. D. Laing and A. Ester- what is happening. But what happens in son. Basic Books, Inc., Publishers a group wilt be intelligible if one can New York. retrace the steps from what is going on (process) to who is doing what (praxis)." The purpose of this book is to report (p. 8) the results of an investigation of schizo- phrenics and their families. The authors Schizophrenic behavior is basically be- intend to show that schizophrenia is havior that we observe but don't under- more intelligible than usually accepted stand. We sometimes call it bizarre or if it is considered within the context of inappropriate because it seems to us a group process: the family process. that such behavior is not accountable The authors reiterate in their preface for, when we consider the schizophrenic to this second edition, that most of the in his situation with us, or when we critics of their book critiziced it from listen to reports from his family. Yet, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

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Springer Journals
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1972 The Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
ISSN
0002-9548
eISSN
1573-6741
DOI
10.1007/BF01872524
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doing, it will be termed praxis. What SANITY, MADNESS, AND THE FAMILY - goes on in a group may not be intended Families of Schizophrenics (Second by anyone. No one may even realize Edition). By R. D. Laing and A. Ester- what is happening. But what happens in son. Basic Books, Inc., Publishers a group wilt be intelligible if one can New York. retrace the steps from what is going on (process) to who is doing what (praxis)." The purpose of this book is to report (p. 8) the results of an investigation of schizo- phrenics and their families. The authors Schizophrenic behavior is basically be- intend to show that schizophrenia is havior that we observe but don't under- more intelligible than usually accepted stand. We sometimes call it bizarre or if it is considered within the context of inappropriate because it seems to us a group process: the family process. that such behavior is not accountable The authors reiterate in their preface for, when we consider the schizophrenic to this second edition, that most of the in his situation with us, or when we critics of their book critiziced it from listen to reports from his family. Yet,

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The American Journal of Psychoanalysis – Springer Journals

Published: Sep 1, 1972

Keywords: Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis

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