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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

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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: 4.06 · 12,631 ratings · 930 reviews · 59 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness 4.11 avg rating — 6,618 ratings — published 1960 — 103 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise 4.12 avg rating — 2,155 ratings — published 1967 — 68 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Knots 3.89 avg rating — 1,692 ratings — published 1970 — 51 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sanity, Madness and the Family: Families of Schizophrenics by R.D. Laing, Aaron Esterson 4.18 avg rating — 485 ratings — published 1964 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Self and Others 4.02 avg rating — 468 ratings — published 1959 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Politics of the Family and Other Essays 3.84 avg rating — 237 ratings — published 1969 — 48 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Do You Love Me? An Entertainment in Conversation and Verse 3.79 avg rating — 195 ratings — published 1976 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wisdom, Madness and Folly: The Making of a Psychiatrist 1927-57 4.08 avg rating — 131 ratings — published 1985 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Conversations with Children 3.81 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 1977 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Facts of Life: An Essay in Feelings, Facts and Fantasy 3.71 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 1976 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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

tags: madness

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“Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.”
― R.D. Laing

tags: love, r-d-laing

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