Social Scientists & Psychologists
- Identity's Architect
- Lawrence J. Friedman
- Identity's Architect is the first comprehensive biography of Erik Erikson, postwar America's most influential psychological thinker, who decisively reshaped our views of human development. Drawing on private materials and extensive interviews, Friedman illuminates the relationship between Erikson's personal life and his groundbreaking notion of the life cycle and the identity crisis.
- Paperback 2000
- The Wing of Madness
- Daniel Burston
- In his final years, R. D. Laing (1927-1989) was arriving at lectures addled with hashish and brandy. Reflecting on this sad spectacle, one is apt to forget that Laing was one of the most influential and controversial psychiatrists of the twentieth century, whose books sold millions of copies in more than twenty languages. Even at the height of his power, however, Ronald Laing was a mystery, a man of many contradictions, and it is this mystery that The Wing of Madness explores, searching out both the remarkable story of Laing's life and the lasting significance of his work.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998