Anti-psychiatry and literature : a Laingian analysis of Balzac's Louis Lambert, Stendhal's Le Rouge et Le Noir, the Goncourts' Renée Mauperin, and Zola's L'Oeuvre

This thesis centres on the intersection between four French nineteenth-century novels and the writings of the Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing, work which appeared in the 1960s and early 1970s and which has been given the label ‘anti-psychiatric’ because of its hostility to established psychiatric p...

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Main Author: Faulkner, Colin
Published: University of Edinburgh 2002
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.650516