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Sanity, Madness and the Family: R. D. Laing and A. Esterson

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Anthony S. David
Anthony S. David*
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Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AZ
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 149 , Issue 3 , September 1986 , pp. 379 - 381
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Copyright © 1986 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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