I split me

What is madness? Or rather, what is the most common form of madness - schizophrenia? Is it possible to treat serious mental disorders with such a gentle psychotherapeutic method as communication with the patient? And where does a thin line between normal and madness run?
Scottish psychiatrist and one of the ideologists of the Antipsychiatry movement, Ronald David Leing (1927 - 1989), believed that schizophrenia is actually not a disease, but a way to cope with problems, first of all, family. Avoiding difficulties in the real world, a person can behave like a crazy and without a psychiatric diagnosis. Laing considered the behavior of his patients not as symptoms of the disease, but as manifestations of personal freedom and personal experience.
In the book “split“ I ””, Laging does not just talk about his work with schizophrenics, but reveals their inner reality and tries to make madness understandable, thereby changing the perception of mental illness