In 1966, Mary Barnes was a schizophrenic with no hope of relief from her condition, and Joseph Berke was a young doctor rebelling against the restrictions of the American psychiatric profession. When Berke moved to England to work with radical psychologist R. D. Laing, he met Mary, a patient at Laing's experimental therapeutic community at Kingsley Hall, East London. Their account of their different perspectives on Mary's illness and treatment is both a critique of conventional approaches to therapy, and the story of a remarkable friendship. This new edition of a classic of psychotherapy is now expanded to include new epilogues from both authors.
