R.D. Laing

Born: 1927-10-07

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.


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Arthur Janov's Primal Therapy

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Released: 2018-04-30

An associative view of the days, nights and characters that enclosed the life of Arthur Janov,...

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Ah, Sunflower

as Self
Released: 1967-08-13

Allen Ginsberg in Britain.

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Did You Used to Be R.D. Laing?

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Released: 1989-10-02

A solo show whose subject - the controversial Scottish psychiatrist Ronald David Laing - has...

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Cain's Film

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Released: 1969-07-29

A film about Alexander Trocchi. Scottish born poet, writer, translator and author of "Young...

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The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest
First aired: 1968-06-06

The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various...

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