R.D. Laing

Biography

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. Laing's views on the causes and treatment of serious mental dysfunction, greatly influenced by existential philosophy, ran counter to the psychiatric orthodoxy of the day by taking the expressed feelings of the individual patient or client as valid descriptions of lived experience rather than simply as symptoms of some separate or underlying disorder.

Most Famous Work

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Knots

(1975) Book

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All Divided Selves

(2012) Writer

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Acting

Year	Character	Movie/Tv
2018	N/A	Arthur Janov's Primal Therapy 2018-04-30 Movie
2012	N/A	All Divided Selves 2012-03-28 Movie
1989	N/A	Did You Used to Be R.D. Laing? 1989-10-02 Movie
1975	Man watching rehearsal	Knots 1975-01-01 Movie
1972	Himself	Asylum 1972-09-06 Movie
1969	N/A	Cain's Film 1969-07-29 Movie
1968	Self - Guest	The Dick Cavett Show 1968-06-06 TV Show
1967	N/A	New Tempo: Stimulants 1967-12-26 Movie
	Self	Ah, Sunflower 1967-08-13 Movie
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Writing

Year	Role	Movie/Tv
2012	Writer	All Divided Selves 2012-03-28 Movie
1975	Book	Knots 1975-01-01 Movie
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