Known For
Acting
Born
Oct 07, 1927
Died
Aug 23, 1989
Place of Birth
Govanhill, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Credits
10 titles
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. 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.
Known For
Filmography
Arthur Janov's Primal Therapy
All Divided Selves
Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words
Self (archive footage)
Did You Used to Be R.D. Laing?
Knots
Man watching rehearsal
Asylum
Himself
Cain's Film
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
New Tempo: Stimulants
Ah, Sunflower
Self