In 1965, the prominent Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing launched a radical experiment. At London’s Kingsley Hall, Laing founded a community for the mentally ill that stood in stark contrast to the ...

Directed and written by Robert Mullan, the drama tells the story of world-renowned Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing (Tennant) and his unique community at Kingsley Hall, East London, during the ...

These incidences, as well as Laing's struggles with alcohol, are highlighted in the film. Mad to be Normal delivers a powerful and encompassing depiction of R.D. Laing the person and the psychiatrist.

Description: In 2017, a neon maker in Auckland produced these Blue Knots for Billy Apple. The neon maker had been in the process of refurbishing Four Knots for R. D. Laing, a work made in 1966 from ...

Mad To Be Normal, the biopic of famed “high priest of anti-psychiatry” R.D. Laing, is set to close this year’s Glasgow Film Festival, having its world premiere in the Scottish city on Feb. 26.

R.D. Laing Biography 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.

On a stage, actors prepare to perform Edward Petherbridge's vignette play based on R.D. Laing's 1970 book about the common psychological knots and hang ups that make human communication much ...

Theodore Lidz, ROBERT ORRILL, ROBERT BOYERS, Theordore Lidz, Schizophrenia, R. D. Laing, and The Contemporary Treatment of Psychosis: An Interview with Dr. Theodore Lidz, Salmagundi, No. 16, R. D.

R. D. Laing and Mystical Modern Man Radicalism--Part Xen By Jonathan I. Ritvo February 26, 1969 ...

Laing examines some of the forms of control and power which affect individual experience -- psychotherapy, family, school, the group. However, the primary intent of the book is experience not ...