Divided Self

"The Divided Self" was first published in 1960. It is a psychiatric monograph written by Ryan, a psychiatrist. This book focuses on schizophrenia and schizophrenia individuals, studies and explores the phenomenon of clinical madness, and understands its occurrence and development mechanisms. And using everyday language to discuss these crazy phenomena in existential philosophy was a pioneering effort at the time. This work makes madness understandable and thus changes the way we understand mental illness, giving people who are defined as normal in the social framework the possibility to understand "mental patients" to a certain extent. Drawing on case studies of patients he treated, Lane argued that psychosis may not be a medical illness but the result of a "split self," or the tension between two roles within us: a true, private identity and a false, intellectual self that we present to the world. The author is different from traditional treatments that eagerly classify people into "normal or abnormal". He has unreserved sympathy for the existential situation of modern people. The self was unable to express the truth under the heavy pressure of the outside world, and then gradually moved towards a mental breakdown. With deep understanding and love, Lane reveals the hidden hope and guides people towards true health. "The Divided Self" is also a book full of love and compassion, soothing thousands of lonely hearts with compassion.