The basic jist of this book goes something like:
Sometimes the dynamics of a family force a member of that family into impossible double- triple- and quadruple-binds, where no action, no thought, no belief fits in with the prevailing dynamics and counterdynamics…
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In some of these cases, it affects the family member (usually the child, who’s mind is developed within the constraints of these binds) such that they are unable to cope with, or even find a hold on, consensus reality. This is the cause of some amount of severe mental illness.
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When I was going through college and talked about Laing with some psych students and profs, they bucked pretty hard whenever the ideas that family affect mental health were brought up.
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thank fuck i never tried to learn about psychology in school jesus
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Yyyup; reading Anne Harrington’s slim little history on the “Biological Turn” in psych taught me about 20,000x more about psych than all my psych classes and convos with grad students combined; v recommended
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