Ronald David Laing
Psychiatrist
Ronald David Laing, usually cited as R. D. Laing, was a Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness – in particular, the experience of psychosis. Wikipedia
Born: 7 October 1927, Govanhill, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Died: 23 August 1989, Saint-Tropez, France
Children: Adrian Charles Laing, Paul Laing, Susan Laing and more
Spouse: Jutta Werner (m. 1974–1986) and Anne Laing (m. 1952–1966)
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Ronald David Laing (7 October 1927 – 23 August 1989), usually cited as R. D. Laing, was a Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness – in particular, the experience of psychosis.
Mad to Be Normal · Anti-psychiatry · The Ashley Book of Knots
Influences: Eugène Minkowski; Jean-Paul Sartre
Influenced: David Abram; Deleuze and Guattari; Loren Mosher
Known for: Medical model
Fields: Psychiatry
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31/05/2008 · As a psychiatrist, both brilliant and unconventional, RD Laing pioneered the humane treatment of the mentally ill. But as a father, clinically ...
Born: 7 October 1927
1/09/2012 · The maverick psychiatrist RD Laing once described insanity as "a perfectly rational response to an insane world". In 1965, having served as a ...
Alternative Title: Ronald David Laing. R.D. Laing, in full Ronald David Laing, (born October 7, 1927, Glasgow, Scotland—died August 23, 1989, Saint-Tropez, France), British psychiatrist noted for his alternative approach to the treatment of schizophrenia. R.D. Laing. born October 7, 1927. Glasgow, Scotland.
Subjects of study: schizophrenia
Born: October 7, 1927; Glasgow, Scotland
26/02/2017 · The psychiatrist who wanted to make madness normal ... RD Laing was not only Scotland's most famous psychiatrist but for a period in the 1960s ...
30/11/2015 · First published in 1960, RD Laing's seminal work, The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness, was written when he was just ...
He could perhaps best be termed an "existential psychiatrist." Indeed, one of his early books was on Jean-Paul Sartre, and he used concepts from Sartre, Hegel ...
R.D. Laing was a controversial figure to the Establishment and a hero to the counter-culture movement of the 1960s which viewed R. D. Laing as a pioneering ...
In conjunction with the recent critical assessments of the life and work of R.D. Laing, this paper seeks to demonstrate what is revealed when Laing's work on ...
1st Edition. By R D Laing September 05, 2019. Originally published in 1961 this book is divided into two parts. In the first Laing critiques the Kleinian ...