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R.D. Laing


Born
in Glasgow, Scotland
October 07, 1927

Died
August 23, 1989

Genre
Nonfiction, Psychiatry, Poetry

Influences
Gregory Bateson, Eugène Minkowski ...more


Ronald David Laing was a Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness � in particular, the subjective 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.

Laing was associated with the anti-psychiatry movement although he rejected the label. ...more

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Average rating: 4.07 · 11,913 ratings · 809 reviews · 58 distinct works â€� Similar authors
The Divided Self: An Existe...
4.11 avg rating — 6,237 ratings — published 1960 — 104 editions
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The Politics of Experience/...
4.13 avg rating — 2,054 ratings — published 1967 — 68 editions
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Knots
3.90 avg rating — 1,573 ratings — published 1970 — 50 editions
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Sanity, Madness and the Fam...
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Self and Others
4.03 avg rating — 451 ratings — published 1959 — 23 editions
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The Politics of the Family ...
3.85 avg rating — 220 ratings — published 1969 — 47 editions
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Do You Love Me? An Entertai...
3.80 avg rating — 179 ratings — published 1976 — 11 editions
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Wisdom, Madness and Folly: ...
4.09 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 1985 — 14 editions
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Conversations with Children
3.82 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 1977 — 11 editions
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The Facts of Life: An Essay...
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“Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.”
― R.D. Laing
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“Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.”
― Ronald D. Laing, The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise
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“Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.”
― R.D. Laing
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