CONVERSATIONS WITH CHILDREN
R. D. Laing
Condition: Good. Clean and sound paperback with modest edgewear; light creasing to spine and minor rubbing to covers. Internally slight toning and unmarked.
About the Book
In Conversations with Children, R.D. Laing, one of the most original figures in twentieth-century psychiatry, records his spontaneous dialogues with children his own and others over a period of seven years. These conversations, unfiltered and unscripted, reveal the startling intelligence, wit, and imaginative directness with which children perceive the world and question adult assumptions.
For Laing, these exchanges serve not as data but as encounters: moments in which the adult mind is called to rediscover its lost openness and capacity for wonder. The result is a book that is at once simple and profound a work of listening, not diagnosis, where the adult psychiatrist becomes a fellow traveller in the childs symbolic and emotional world.
About the Author
Ronald David Laing (19271989) was a Scottish psychiatrist and writer whose work reshaped modern understanding of mental illness and interpersonal relations. Rejecting mechanistic and purely diagnostic psychiatry, Laing emphasised the existential and relational dimensions of human experience. His major works including The Divided Self, The Politics of Experience, and Knots helped found what came to be known as the anti-psychiatry movement.
