R.D. Laing



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R.D. Laing

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born
October 07, 1927 in Glasgow, The United Kingdom

died
August 23, 1989

gender
male

genre
Nonfiction, Psychiatry, Poetry


About this author

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.


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Books by R.D. Laing

Average rating: 4.02 · 1,598 ratings · 119 reviews · 25 distinct works
The Divided Self: An Existe...
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 638 ratings — published 1960 — 13 editions
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The Politics of Experience
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 377 ratings — published 1967 — 14 editions
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Knots
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 261 ratings — published 1970 — 9 editions
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Sanity, Madness and the Fam...
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4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 1964 — 10 editions
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Self and Others
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 1972 — 9 editions
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The Politics of the Family ...
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1969 — 7 editions
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Do You Love Me?
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1976 — 4 editions
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The Facts Of Life
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 17 ratings — 5 editions
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Wisdom, Madness, And Folly:...
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1986 — 6 editions
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Conversations With Children
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions
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Quotes by R.D. Laing

“Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.”
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“Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.”
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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.”
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