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R.D. Laing
Govanhill, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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 o…
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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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- 2018
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2012
All Divided Selves
Movie
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2011
Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words
TV show Self (archive footage)
- 1989
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1975
Knots
Movie Man watching rehearsal
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1972
Asylum
Movie Himself
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1969
Cain's Film
Movie
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1968
The Dick Cavett Show
TV show Self - Guest
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1967
New Tempo: Stimulants
Movie
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1967
Ah, Sunflower
Movie Self
