R.D. Laing by Adrian Laing

R.D. Laing by Adrian Laing

R.D. Laing, author of "The Divided Self and Knots", was the best-known and most influential psychiatrist of modern times. In this remarkable biography, the only one to be written by a close relative, Laing's son tells the story of his father's life and examines the foundations of his pioneering and unorthodox work on madness and the family. R.D. Laing became famous in the mid 1960s when he co-founded the therapeutic community Kingsley Hall and began his experiments with the therapeutic use of LSD. In the 1970s, Laing studied Zen Buddhism, published poetry, recorded an LP and ran rebirthing workshops across the world - activities which turned him into a guru of radical chic. Yet despite his astonishing empathy with the disturbed, Laing failed to address his own family problems and on the professional side, his practices ultimately led to voluntary disassociation from the medical establishment itself. Adrian Laing's biography, fully updated and with a new foreword, is a brutally honest, sensitive and revelatory portrait of his father's life, as well as a balanced, objective portrait of a troubled genius who changed for ever the way in which the insane are viewed by society and the way they are treated.

Adrian Laing is the second of R.D. Laing's six sons. Now a practising lawyer and the author of several standard legal textbooks, he lives in London with his wife and children.

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ISBN 13	9780750944762
ISBN 10	0750944765
Title	R.D. Laing
Author	Adrian Laing
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The History Press Ltd
Year published	2007-03-01
Number of pages	256
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