PREFACE. Themes From The Esalen Lectures??Part I. What Is Sanity? What Is Madness???1. Sanity and Friendship: The Therapeutic Feature of Communal Living??2. Laing on Sanity, Liberty, Freedom??3. Sanity and the State of the World??Part II. What Is Therapeutic???4. On Sympathy: The Role of Love in the Therapeutic Encounter??5. Laings Conception of Therapy??6. Science and Spirituality??Part III. What Are Altered States???7. The Nature of Reality??8. Falling in Love as an Altered State.??9. Laing on Altered States.??Part IV. What Is Love???10. Eros and Agape??11. The Biology of Love.??12. Laing on Love.??Part V. What Is Authenticity???13. Laing on Authenticity??14. The Dark Side of Authenticity: Laing as Provocateur? ?15. Authentic Community??Part VI. What Is Healing???16. What is Called Healing???17. Healing and the Regeneration of Life??18. Laing on the Human Condition??
?
?
?
?
?
?
?
How can there be a more relevant voice in our contemporary world than R. D. Laing? Is there anything to be more grateful for than sanity amidst this insanity, of healing amidst this suffering, of the altered states of psychosis amidst this lunacy, of love amidst this hatred? Laing was crucial to the founding of the human potential movement in the early 1960s. He is just as relevant today. Thompson, Capra, and Kirsner have brought us a series of essaysl“˛
![R. D. Laing in the Twenty-First Century: Sanity, Therapy, Love [Hardcover]](/itemImage/2/0/0/9/2_7136610.jpg "R. D. Laing in the Twenty-First Century: Sanity, Therapy, Love [Hardcover]")