num_pages: 146
description: This remarkable autobiography charts the subtle horrors of Laing's own upbringing in a resolutely respectable Scottish family in the 1940s. The author's lucid and witty prose offers some unforgettable personal experiences and a host of cultural political and professional insights as he reflects on the growing unease he came to feel in his role as psychiatrist in a society destroying itself by violence masquerading as love.
language: English
title: Wisdom, Madness and Folly: The Making of a Psychiatrist 1927-57
publisher: McGraw-Hill