How long does it take to read The Divided Self?
The Divided Self by R. D. Laing takes about 4 hours 3 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 3 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1959. 221 pages, about 60,775 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 45 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 3 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 32 minutes |
The page count is the median across 21 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
First published in 1960, this watershed work aimed to make madness comprehensible, and in doing so revolutionized the way we perceive mental illness. Using case studies of patients he had worked with, psychiatrist R. D. Laing argued that psychosis is not a medical condition but an outcome of the 'divided self', or the tension between the two personas within us: one our authentic, private identity, and the other the false, 'sane' self that we present to the world.
Subjects: Psychiatry, Cases, clinical reports, statistics, Case studies, Schizophrenia, Existential psychotherapy, Mental illness
