Conversations with Adam and Natasha

By R.D. Laing

Book Overview

Conversations with his two youngest children over the past six years form the basis for revealing, sometimes funny, examples of the ways in which children's thoughts and personalities develop This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039442008X
• ISBN13: 9780394420080
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Pantheon Books
• Length: 149 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Wonderfully Witty and Charming!

Famed psychologist Dr. R.D. Laing records conversations between himself, his two children (Adam and Natasha) and his wife Jutta. Brilliantly profound listening to the children speak their wisdom. The author points out that nothing is tampered with in the conversations besides some inadvertent ommissions. Also there are no after thoughts or annotations, for he felt he would like that job to someone else. Funny and charming, this book (although currently out of print)can make you appreciate children more often, and listening to them a great deal more. A good companion to Laing's 'Knots.' If you enjoyed this, I would also suggest Gregory Bateson's 'Steps To An Ecology of Mind.'