R.D. Laing

Scottish psychiatrist and author associated with the anti-psychiatry movement; best known for The Divided Self (1960) and work on psychosis, family dynamics, and existential approaches to mental illness.

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  1. 1. Knots

    A compact collection of short, often elliptical vignettes and dialogues that map the recurring, paradoxical patterns people weave in relationships—‘knots’ of communication in which intimacy, control, love, guilt and confusion are braided together. Through succinct scenes, playful language and clinical detachment, the work exposes how self and other become entangled by circular logic, double binds and unconscious games, revealing both the darkly comic and painful consequences of those repetitive interactions. It reads part poetry, part case-study, inviting readers to recognize the invisible rules that govern everyday exchanges and to reflect on how those rules shape identity and suffering.

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