R d laing biography template
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R. D. Laing Biography |
| Ronald David Laing (October 7, 1927 - August 23, 1989), was a psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness and particularly the experience of psychosis.
He is noted for his views, influenced by existential philosophy, on the causes and treatment of mental illness, which went against the psychiatric orthodoxy of the time. R d laing biography templateHe is often associatied with the anti-psychiatry movement although, like many of his contemporaries also critical of psychiatry, he himself rejected this label. He spent several years as an army psychiatrist, where he found he had a particular talent for communicating with mentally distressed people. In 1953 Laing left the army and later went to study at the Tavistock Clinic in London, widely known as a centre for the study and practice of psychotherapy (particularly psychoanalysis). |