Wisdom Madness and Folly: The Making of a Psychiatrist

About this book

Subtitled "The Making of a Psychiatrist " this remarkable autobiography charts the subtle horrors of Laings own upbringing in a resolutely "respectable" Scottish family in the 1940s. The authors lucid and witty prose offers some unforgettable personal experiences and a host of cultural political and professional insights as he reflects on the growing unease he came to feel in his role as psychiatrist in a society "destroying itself by violence masquerading as love."