Sanity, Madness and the Family
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, rs-Laing and Esterson describe an investigation of 11 patients suffering from ronic or acute and episodic schizophrenia, and of their families. Patients and p-ttiily members were interviewed both separately and together, in various combina-l0ns. The number of interviews per case varied considerably (between 13 and 44), jnd excerpts from them, as well as from the case records, are used to demonstrate very
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