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Ronald D. Laing

  • Ronald David Laing
  • R. D. Laing
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Laing, Ronald D.
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Date of birth
1927-10-07
Place of birth
Glasgow
Date of death
1989-08-23
Place of death
Saint-Tropez

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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, psychosis and schizophrenia.

Laing's views on the causes and treatment of psychopathological phenomena were influenced by his study of existential philosophy and ran counter to the chemical and electroshock methods that had become psychiatric orthodoxy. Laing took the expressed feelings of the individual patient or client as valid descriptions of personal experience rather than simply as symptoms of mental illness. Though associated in the public mind with the anti-psychiatry movement, he rejected the label. Laing regarded schizophrenia as the normal psychological adjustment to a dysfunctional social context.

Politically, Laing was regarded as a thinker of the New Left. He was portrayed by David Tennant in the 2017 film Mad to Be Normal.

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Ronald David Laing, usually cited as R. D. Laing, was a Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness.

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NameFormatISBNRelease Date
Phänomenologie der ErfahrungPaperback?1969
KnotsPaperback97803947177601972-04-12
Interpersonelle WahrnehmungPaperback3-518-00499-91976
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4436873
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Q238584

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