Anti-Psychiatry
by John Huddleston “I know so many bad jokes. At least I didn’t invent them. Jimmy McKenzie was a bloody pest at the mental hospital because he went around shouting at his voices. We could only hear...
View ArticleAll Divided Selves, Review of Luke Fowler’s R D Laing Documentary
by Centre for Medical Humanities Cheryl McGeachan writes: Inside The Glasgow Film Theatre on Thursday evening a diverse mix of individuals crowded together for the sold-out UK premier of Luke Fowler’s...
View ArticleDid You Used to be R.D. Laing?
In this documentary R.D. Laing recites stories from his own life and from his patients’ experiences to present insight into his radical brand of psychotherapy. 1989.
View ArticleHistorical perspectives on anti-psychiatry
Historical perspectives on anti-psychiatry D B Double Chapter 2 of Critical psychiatry: The limits of madness The origin of anti-psychiatry As mentioned in chapter 1, the origin of the modern use of...
View ArticleThe Inaugural R D Laing Lecture & Dramatic Reconstruction of the Dialectics...
Centre for Medical Humanities Blog THE DIALECTICS OF LIBERATION CONGRESS 1967: DIALEKTIKON 2012 The first bi-annual R D Laing Lecture will to take place at The Unitarian Church, Haverstock Hill,...
View ArticleKingsley Hall: RD Laing’s experiment in anti-psychiatry
by guardian ‘A radical moment’: Kingsley Hall residents, 1965. Photograph: Dorothee von Grieff The maverick psychiatrist RD Laing once described insanity as “a perfectly rational response to an insane...
View ArticleStory of medical maverick to hit big screen
by heraldscotland Phil Miller HE remains one of the most controversial figures in Scottish medical history, and now the life of RD Laing, the radical psychiatrist who championed LSD and wrote The...
View ArticleSzasz and Beyond: The Spiritual Promise of the Mad Pride Movement
by MadinAmerica Dedicated to the memory of Thomas Szasz In 1961 The Myth of Mental Illness by psychiatrist Thomas Szasz was published. No one knew it then but it would turn out to be one of the most...
View ArticleAdrian Laing: ‘I feel bitter and sweet about Dad’
The son of RD Laing has written a novel poking fun at his radical therapies ‘At university, I used to play hooker in the rugby team. Being ‘rebirthed’ by my dad was a bit like being back in the scrum,...
View ArticleKingsley Hall: RD Laing’s Experiment in Anti-psychiatry
In 1965, the psychiatrist opened a residential treatment centre that aimed to revolutionize the treatment of mental illness. Five decades on, those who lived and spent time there look back on an era of...
View ArticleR.D. Laing & Anti-Psychopathology: The Myth of Mental Illness Redux
I would like to share with you some thoughts I have about R. D. Laing’s conception of psychopathology. This is not an easy topic to explore, in part because Laing was somewhat ambivalent about the...
View ArticleLiving in One of R. D. Laing’s Post-Kingsley Hall Households
Kingsley Hall was the first of Laing’s household communities that served as a place where you could live through madness until you could get it together and live independently. It was conceived as an...
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